October 10, 2022 | Art House Film Wire

Movie of the Week: ‘Dave’

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Jeff Mitchell

“Dave” (1993) – U.S. President Bill Mitchell suffers a stroke and lies in a coma, so Chief of Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) and Communications Director Alan Reed (Kevin Dunn) have a local employment agency manager, Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline), impersonate the president…for a while. You see, Dave is Bill Mitchell’s uncanny doppelganger, but pretending to be the leader of the free world? That sounds frightening, but not as scary as attempting to convince First Lady Ellen Mitchell (Sigourney Weaver), who carries the gravitas of a U.S. president herself. While…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Motel Hell’

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Jeff Mitchell

“Motel Hell” (1980) – Vincent (Roy Calhoun) and Ida Smith (Nancy Parsons) are a brother and sister team who run a motel in the countryside. Vincent sports a southern accent of sorts, but Ida’s might be placed somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic. Anyways, their lodging doesn’t sit off a busy highway, but a winding road with a marsh close by, and the accommodations look low budget. In fact, the second “O” flickers on the MOTEL HELLO sign, so it reads MOTEL HELL. For folks who unfortunately attempt to drive by,…