If you’re a movie fan, alien invasion movies are not only fairly common, they’re fairly repetitive thematically speaking. Which is to say that the aliens turn up, humanity puts aside their various differences, and the aliens are repelled. The thing is this is not a fairly common template, it’s the version of such things Hollywood […]
I recently did a REview of M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap – it’s not a great movie – but the making of that video was the first time I worked with a virtual green screen on a longer-length video (I use it regularly on shorter ones). The experience was informative and something I intend to use […]
I have to admit that when I learned that Osgood Perkins (I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, Longlegs) was working with James Wan on a Stephen King adaptation, I wasn’t optimistic. After all, Wan is at best uneven as a director/producer while I’d argue that there are more mediocre to bad […]
I remember growing up wishing that Marvel Studios had control of the properties they ‘leased’ to other studios during their bankruptcy, like Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Well, 2.5 out of three ain’t bad because with Disney’s purchase of the theatrical assets in 2019 they officially regained possession of the X-Men and Fantastic […]
Damian McCarthy’s Oddity is by my reckoning the best movie horror movie I’ve seen in 2025 (it was released toward the end of the prior year) not because it’s perfect – though it’s pretty damn close – but because it does so much right. By which I mean the movie introduces numerous things at the […]
The second series of Netflix’s Squid Game is really good though I wonder if the upcoming third, and final, season can maintain momentum and wrap in a satisfying fashion; which if you’ve seen The Prisoner (1967-1968) – a series Squid Game is likely inspired by, along with Battle Royale (2000) – is harder to do […]
I was surprised that I enjoyed Hulu’s Prey (2022) as much as I did though what I think so impressed me about it was the way that it advanced the mythology of the Predator. And sure, it did nothing that Dark Horse Comics wasn’t doing when they had the comics franchise (Predator and Alien currently […]
My expectations for the, as far as I could tell, unnecessary remake of Steven King’s Salem’s Lot were fairly low because there were not only already two prior miniseries based on the same novel but both were pretty good. I prefer the 2004 version but there’s nothing at all wrong with the 1979 one. As […]
I have a sneaking suspicion that Robert Eggers’ upcoming Nosferatu is going to not do all that well at the box office. And there are a few reasons why I think that that going to be the case – take a look at the video for more – one worth thinking about is why it’s […]
While I think that the best genre is produced in the United States, there are some pretty strong contenders. Such as the French. Directors like Alexandre Aja, Xavier Gans, Dominique Rochere, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, etc are really doing some really interesting work in that they take ideas you’ve seen before, such as serial […]
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