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Written by ScreenPhilesMarch 8, 2021

REview – Pacific Rim: The Black (2021) | It Works Surprisingly Well

I didn’t go into Pacific Rim: The Black expecting much. After all, Netflix’s anime versions of Godzilla (Godzilla: Monster Planet, Godzilla: Singularity Point & Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle), weren’t terrible though they weren’t anything to write home about either and seemed to revolve around other characters more than the giant lizard of […]

Written by ScreenPhilesMarch 2, 2021

REview: Judas And The Black Messiah (2021) | The Past Never Stays Buried For Long

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 […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 28, 2021

REview: Two Sentence Horror Stories, S3 (2021) | Diversity Can Be Scary

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 […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 23, 2021February 23, 2021

REview: Tribes Of Europa (2021) | Brexit Overdrive

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 […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 22, 2021

REview: Porno (2019) | Not At All What One Would Expect

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 […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 16, 2021February 16, 2021

REview: Synchronic (2019) | Moorhead & Benson’s Attempt At The Mainstream (Mainly) Works

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 […]

Written by ScreenPhilesJanuary 28, 2021January 28, 2021

REview: Possessor (2020) | The Minefield That is the Mind

I went into Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor EXTREMELY skeptical (I’d seen his 2012 movie, Antiviral, and recall being somewhat repulsed by it. And while a movie that makes you feel anything – even repulsion – is in a way a good thing, it’s not something I knowingly seek out). And I have to say, Possessor flirts […]

Written by ScreenPhilesJanuary 25, 2021January 26, 2021

REview: The Empty Man (2020) | James Badge Dale Deserves Most of the Credit

As I say in the header, James Badge Dale deserves a huge amount of the credit for David Prior’s The Empty Man being as good as it is. He’s not only charismatic, but the type of actor that seems to vanish into a role, as opposed to being of the preening, attention-grabbing variety. Though the […]

Written by ScreenPhilesJanuary 21, 2021January 21, 2021

REview: La Casa (2019) | Those Who Ignore The Past Are Doomed to Repeat It

Jorge Olguín’s La Casa revolves around Casona de Quinta Normal in Chile, which was been associated with paranormal events for decades…even after it was converted to a community center. Which sounds like a really interesting thing to make a movie about, except that La Casa isn’t really about Casona de Quinta Normal, not really, more […]

Written by ScreenPhilesJanuary 18, 2021January 18, 2021

REview: Wolfwalkers (2020) | Animation that Captivates and Amazes

As I’ve aged (gracefully, I like to think) I’ve noticed that I don’t tend to watch much animation; I don’t dislike it, and in fact respect it as an art from in and of itself, though it just doesn’t engage me. Part of the problem is that I grew up on hand-drawn animation. And sure, […]

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