Reviews of films
Every week up until the new year, Hallmark will be showing two films a week. I’m not sure how I managed to do this last year, especially when they do what I call the Thanksgiving Bomb (a film a day … Continue reading Hallmark Countdown to Christmas: Merry & Bright Recap/Review
A dynamic but flawed Nazi satire that invokes Moonrise Kingdom by way of Mel Brooks. This is a spoiler-free review. Nazism is pretty ridiculous if you think about it. A fanatical campaign to create a super race led by a … Continue reading Review: Jojo Rabbit
Halloween: early 2000s -Modern era Almost more than any other slasher franchise, Halloween has been willing to go through a lot of redefinitions of what kind of killer Michael Myers is. Is he our worst fears, that anyone could do … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Day 31 – The Halloween Franchise Part 3/3
In Which Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion As the 90’s slunk into the 2000’s our titular angst changed. Instead of the nervous tittering about some grand event in the face of the oncoming clock turn, the woes … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 40: Donnie Darko
The Middle Years: Halloween 4-7 Some horror franchises refuse to die. Halloween being over 40 years old and with more sequels planned is definitely among the oldest of the well known franchises out there. While the first movie captured lightning … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Day 30 – The Halloween Series Part 2/3
What could I possibly say about this movie that was not said here? *Deep Breath* Available in Canada, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Also free on Vimeo, but I am not linking to that. Approximately … Continue reading WTF ASIA 80: House (1977)
While Nightmare on Elm Street came to be the series that would make me a horror geek, Halloween was my first true horror franchise, early stepping stones that I will always remember and thus shall be paying tribute to the … Continue reading Month of Horror Day 29: The Halloween Series Part 1/3
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Tim Burton Edition. The Nightmare Before Christmas
If you read a list of horror films with LGBT characters you’ll find a lot of murder victims, serial killers and vampires. Occasionally a gay side character gets lucky (Cursed (2005), ParaNorman (2012) ) but often they’re first on the … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Horror Protagonists
Welcome to Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2019. This year, the channel plans to release 24 all new original movies that bring bland love, badly decorated living rooms, and mysterious characters who are actually Santa together for our viewing pleasure. Join … Continue reading Hallmark Countdown to Christmas: Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses Recap/Review
An immersive and haunting folktale anchored by two exceptional lead performances. This is a spoiler-free review. How did this film get made? How did a weird, surreal art film with a microscopic cast get funding, let alone national distribution? No … Continue reading Review: The Lighthouse
What are we to make of a movie like The Lighthouse? The longer you gaze into its depths, the murkier it appears. If it’s sense you want, look elsewhere. This is early period David Lynch territory, a smoky, rusty machine … Continue reading Movie Review: The Lighthouse
So I have no clue if anyone on this site has seen this movie. If you have , here’s a spoiler space to talk about One Cut of the Dead. It’s one of the best reviewed movies of the year … Continue reading Month of Horror Day 25: One Cut of the Dead Spoiler Space
Inner city youth, mutated bugs, and Clint Howard – what could go wrong? Oh the 90s were a weird transitionary time in horror. Scream made a certain type of dialogue heavy slashers popular later in the decade, but before … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 24 Ticks
In Which There are Ghosts in the Modems The paradox of modernity is thus: we live a world with more people than ever, closer together, and with more forms of communication than ever, and yet we feel incredibly isolated and … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 39: Pulse
[This is a spoiler-free review. If you want to include spoilers in the comments please use spoiler tags, or you can comment at the film’s Spoil Sports.] Maybe he just resonated with me, more than I expected, and more than … Continue reading Joker Review
You like scary movies? How about one about having to survive under the Taliban? Available in the United States and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 83 minutes. An Afghan boy is talking to a foreign cameraman and leads him to … Continue reading WTF ASIA 79: Osama (2003)
Some movies are works of art and some movies are best at being escapist fun. The rare film can find a balance of both and produce something somewhere in between that’s not only entertaining but an inspiring template for movies … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 23 Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires
Remakes of any genre often have to answer one tough question: why? Is this an update for a new era, is it remaking something that’s still popular but no longer has an active franchise, or is this just a shameless … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Suspiria (2018)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business of … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Live-action Edition. The Haunted Mansion
After watching A Christmas Prince, a few people told me there was another “beloved” Netflix Christmas romcom that I should watch: The Princess Switch (not to be confused with Hallmark’s Switched for Christmas although the confusion would be completely understandable). … Continue reading Not Hallmark: The Princess Switch Recap/Review
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