Stuff You Put On The Internet Is There For Forever. Consider That Before You Make A Movie About How Small Your Penis Is Brian Spitz‘s Unhung Hero opens on two guys in a spartan hotel room in Papua, New Guinea. One’s black, and the other’s white. After a moment the black guy sits down and prepares a syringe, while in the […]
I recently did a writeup of Steven McKnight’s Locke, starring Tom Hardy and a BMW X3 for Love Your Movies. It’s one of the pithier reviews that I have written and more importantly I think that it manages to give the reader an impression of what’s going on in the movie, without spoiling it. I enjoyed writing […]
I have no idea why someone called this a ‘red band’ trailer, which usually means that there’s an excess of something (typically violence acts or salty language). That being said, it is intense. Snowpiercer revolves around a world devastated by global warming, with the last vestiges of humanity existing aboard a train, Snowpiercer. Over time, the […]
I have to admit that I have been jonsing for a really entertaining horror movie for awhile, and have yet to scratch what’s been a particularly irksome itch. I saw “Oculus” a few weeks ago; good movie, though barely an appetizer. I need something really ambitious, something primarily practical–minimal CGI–and so creepy in the atmosphere department that […]
Before Mike Flanagan wrote and directed “Oculus’ there was his award-winning short “Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man With The Plan.” Despite being the third chapter, far as I know there were no prior editions. I have been looking for a link to the actual short, but I have yet to find it. As soon as I do, […]
Ridley Scott, even when his films are sort of silly, like “Legend,” look absolutely remarkable. He has an eye that manages to catch the smallest details, but his ear for nonsensical story beats is not quite so acute. For instance, while “Prometheus” was gorgeous to look at, but if you give it any sort of consideration, […]
The first I heard of Ruairi Johnson was from the the short movie “The Silent City,” which was awhile ago. At the time I though that he had a very interesting vision, kind of dark (I don’t mind nihilism, though a little goes a long way) and atmospheric. I didn’t hear of any projects from his since, so I […]
Let me begin by saying that I didn’t start out hating “Lost” when it originally aired back in 2004. In fact, I honestly didn’t watch enough episodes to form any sort of opinion (of the informed variety, at any rate). The thing is, I am a huge fan of horror and science fiction movies and […]
Guillermo Del Toro is, it goes without saying, one of my favorite directors working today. His work is always interesting, even if doesn’t make billions of dollars. He’s been working with Legendary Pictures since “Pacific Rim,” which did OK at the boxoffice. I haven’t heard anything about a sequel, though he’s currently working on “Crimson […]
“Oculus” Is A Decent Thriller, But Seemingly Fails The Logic Test I enjoyed Mike Flanagan‘s “Oculus,” a slow-burn thriller about a haunted mirror, and the lives it has destroyed because I sometimes like a movie in which stakes are a little more personal, as opposed with threatening the world with annihilation, or anything along those lines. […]
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