Cutting a trailer is an art in and of itself and likely a more challenging one than most people think. Imagine this: Most movies last about around an hour in a half, yet someone has to cut a trailer that lasts no more than two minutes that ideally not only gives viewers an idea what […]
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is in a very similar vein as The Thing (1982), Deep Star Six (1989), Leviathan (1989) and Harbinger Down (2015) but is novel enough that it’s it own thing. It’s a very beautiful, thoughtful movie about what happens when good intentions go horribly awry and there’re no villains – monsters, Yes, […]
The last movie I saw about horrors from the deep was Underwater from earlier this year, so my bar for waterborne terror is pretty high. That being said, I should know better because I’ve also seen Leviathan and Deep Star Six – both from 1989 – and television shows like Surface (2005) – and while […]
The Second Season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy dropped last Friday, and it’s pretty good. Based upon a Dark Horse comic written by Gerald Way and Gabriel Bá, Season Two begins where last season ended, which is to say that the students of the Umbrella Academy fail at their attempt to stop the Apocalypse. Number […]
I find if fascinating when rich people squander their fortunes because they start the race a few leagues (Roman) ahead of everyone else, yet they still manage to screw it up (which isn’t the same as a poor – or should I say “less rich” – person who lose any newfound wealth because they’re unaccustomed […]
I genuinely enjoyed Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, despite being almost equally irritated by the movie in various ways. Though the worst transgression as far as I’m concerned is that it’s an “Invisible Man” movie where the invisible man is a secondary character in what’s typically – or should be – his own story. That […]
Brad Peyton’s Incarnate is not your typical possession story in that you have a scientist (?) Dr. Ember (Aaron Eckhart) who’s life has been touched – more like being caught in a car wreck – by the supernatural and devoted his life to freeing people who’ve been effected by the lingering touch of evil. He […]
I’ve never been a Star Trek fan, not really. Sure, I grew up watching Star Trek but that was more due to the fact that there was nothing else available. It’s the same reason I watched Lost In Space. I didn’t love it, particularly the later episodes, which were often silly, but it was also […]
All I need to say about Ant Timpson’s Come To Daddy is that it co-stars the brilliant Stephen McHattie, Hollywood’s go-to actor when you want a vaguely sinister older white person in your movie. With a face like a worn leather saddle and a voice like rusty hinges, he has to rank among the best […]
I think I must be growing up because you’d think Vivarium would be a movie I’d take to like a duck to water. And initially I did, till I noticed something: the weirdness seemed to serve no point. In my review I mention both The Prisoner (1967) and The Signal (2014), two series that did […]
