I didn't get to see Rob Zombie's "Halloween" in advance, nor did I get to see the Kevin Bacon "Death Wish" retread "Death Sentence," the two movies opening in Memphis this week that I actually want to see. (Which is not the same as saying that I expect them to be any good...)

Instead, I review the inane yet stooopidly enjoyable "Balls of Fury," with Christopher Walken as a sort of Queens Fu Manchu who loves "Ping-Pahn-guh" (as Walken refers to table tennis, in his distinctive pronunciation). That review is here.

I also review the ambitious/pretentious "Bad Seed" update "Joshua," a psychological horror film that demonstrates that the poison apple doesn't fall far from the toxic family tree.