Year: 2022

Maybe don’t pack your bags. ‘Ticket to Paradise’ is a forgettable trip.

Jeff Mitchell

“Ticket to Paradise” (2022) – “We’ve waited so long.  We’ve waited so long.  I got two tickets to paradise.  Won’t you pack your bags, we’ll leave tonight.” – “Two Tickets to Paradise” (1978) by Eddie Money George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Movie audiences haven’t “waited so long” for a Clooney-Roberts collaboration.  These two megastars have connected on the big screen for years, dating back to 2001. For starters, “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001), “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004), and “Money Monster” (2016), and Julia starred in a provocative supporting role in “Confessions of a…

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

Jeff Mitchell

“Diabolique” (1955) – It’s not a mystery that Christina Delassalle (Vera Clouzot) isn’t happy. She enjoys her job as a teacher and owner of Delassalle Boarding School, but Christina is married to a boorish jerk, Michel (Paul Meurisse).  He openly cheats with another teacher, Nicole (Simone Signoret), and when Michel actually spends time with Christina, he usually browbeats her. Michel, the school’s principal and former tennis star, also practices his backhands on Nicole’s and Christina’s faces with frequency as well.  So, when Nicole talks about murdering him, Christina – a…

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

Jeff Mitchell

“Antichrist” (2009) – A couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) loses their son in a horrible accident, and they turn to grief, guilt, and condemnation as unfortunate coping mechanisms.  Director/writer Lars von Trier’s scathing, sickening story dives into the minds of two individuals who allow self-loathing and wrath to rise from the darkest corners of their imagination to the surface.  “Antichrist” is a visceral, shocking experience, and Dafoe and Gainsbourg fully commit to von Trier’s staggering vision.   Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: 2 Willem Dafoe stars in “Antichrist” (2009)…