Some Memories, And Coma Patients, Are Best Left Alone Mark Hartley‘s Patrick, is currently on Netflix, and is surprisingly a engaging little horror film (before it jumps the rails, that is). I was expecting something silly, on the level of an Asylum feature, it was actually pretty engaging, before the aforementioned rail jumping. Charles Dance brought a much needed […]
I enjoy horror and science fiction movies, primarily, but they’re not the only type that I enjoy. For instance, John Schlesinger’s Marathon Man, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor, George Roy Hill’s Slap Shot and Robert Altman’s M.A.S.H are four films that I hold in particularly high esteem. Which is primarily because they’re so different than […]
Boyhood Is A Fascinating Movie More Because Of How It Was Made, Than The Movie Itself I just saw Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and it was pretty interesting, though mostly on the technical level (it was filmed over a period of 12 years); as an exercise in innovative filmmaking. As a movie meant to engage an audience, it’s way […]
I don’t get this movie. There’s a small town, heinous crimes involving young women and someone played by Daniel Radcliffe growing horns. Horns was written by Joe Hill, who happens to be the son of Stephen King. He’s probably not as prolific as his dad (which means that he’ll produce a full-length novel only every other week). What’s in the […]
From what I can tell from the trailer Brian A. Miller‘s The Prince has nothing at all to do with Machiavelli’s book, which is a pity because I think it would be particularly neat to see a bad guy who treated it as his moral compass. That being said, the ‘Prince’ is this particular instance is […]
Recently I received a letter from Netflix telling me that the second season of Hemlock Grove was coming July 11th, tomorrow. With that in mind, I thought that I’d do a write-up on the first season. They were also character posters released, which I included below. When I first wrote about the series, I emphasized the […]
I just scored some tickets to Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood today. It’t not the type of movie I typically go for, but then again, I enjoy sneak previews. I mention it because I was checking out my Twitter feed, and noticed this Tweet from @IFCFilms: And Boyhood may indeed be as good as Rolling Stone says […]
The Purge: Anarchy Is A Marked Improvement Over The Original, But There Is So Much Farther That It Could Have Gone What bothered me most about James DeMonaco‘s 2013 movie The Purge was that after introducing viewers to a United States that had brought record reductions in crime though a once-a-year catharsis known as the Purge […]
“There Is A Devil, Of This There Is No Doubt. But Is He Trying To Get In, Or Trying To Get Out?” One of of the worst horror films that I can recall was 1978’s Cruise Into Terror. It’s been awhile, but I remember that it starred George Kennedy (going about things in his typically mildly-befuddled fashion) as the […]
“Fascinating In Its Own Way, Though Its Relentless And Nihilistic Tone May Turn Viewers Off” For years people have been scared by the likes of Freddy Krueger, Norman Bates and Jason Vorhees, but let’s be honest: What they are are cartoon characters. Sure, somewhat violent cartoons, but cartoons nonetheless. After all, imagine if someone were coming at you wearing […]
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