Chaka King’s Judas And The Black Messiah is the type of movie that I tend to avoid (because relatively early on I realized that I believed that what I was seeing wasn’t truth, but an interpretation of truth. In other words, an untruth (to call such depictions a “lie” is in most instances too mean-spirited […]
If it weren’t fairly obvious by now, I really enjoy horror movies in general though what I’ve noticed lately is that I’ve been seeking out those movies that are part of what I like to call the “ghost in the machine” sub-genre (there’s probably an actual name for them though I have no idea what […]
That title is a bit of a double entendre in that this season of the CW’s Two Sentence Horror Stories put diversity and topicality front and center, and for the most part works really well. The rub is that it feels – if you’re paying attention to YouTube, at any rate – that acknowledging that […]
I’m just going to put it out there: I don’t think Zach Snyder can tell a story to save his life, which is all the more interesting since he’s been making a living as a feature-film director (who’s entire job is telling stories) for quite awhile now, after leaving the world of commercials and music […]
Have you heard Chris DeBurgh’s Don’t Pay The Ferryman? It’s my favorite song of his and is pretty self-explanatory (it revolves around a someone taking a ferry being admonished to not pay before it arrives at it’s destination and to “beware that hooded old man at the rudder.”) in terms of what the song is […]
Considering the image you typically get of Islam in the United States (I can’t speak for the rest of the world but here it’s a faith that’s maligned seemingly whenever an opportunity to do so arises) I can understand why way too many people here demonize it and its adherents. As an agnostic I am […]
I really enjoyed Netflix’s Tribes Of Europa and one of the things I found particularly interesting about it was it’s seemingly Eurocentric perspective, which is to say that the dissolution of Europe into mini-fiefdoms results in the more powerful factions trying to bring the continent together under their a single ruling clan/tribe. (Another interesting thing […]
You’d think that calling your horror movie Porno would be akin to having a case of blue balls (in that there is no way on Earth it’s going to live up to the title) though you’d be (mostly) wrong because this movie has great stamina, and stays hard virtually it’s entire running time. The story […]
I recently canceled by subscription to Hulu, mainly because between free Tubi, Netflix and Amazon it felt like a bit of an also-ran (I had the tier with commercials because even at that point the value proposition never quite worked for me). It goes without saying that literally the day I cancel my subscription I […]
I’ve always been interested in quirky and idiosyncratic movie directors – though not always their personal lives – people that no matter what they’re doing bring their own distinct flavor and point of view to the project. That’s the case with artists (not a word I throw around lightly. Just because you’re a director doesn’t […]
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