While I enjoyed 2016’s Doctor Strange I wish that it had been…well…weirder. And to be fair there was quite a burden on director Scott Derrickson’s shoulders, namely now to introduce a character that’s amongst the weirdest in Marvel’s stable, but do so in a manner that doesn’t turn off people who’re grown accustomed to their […]
I really wanted to enjoy Toby Meakins’ Choose or Die. After all, I tend to like ‘ghost in the machine’-type horror (which is what I call movies where machines – computers in particular – interact with ghosts, spirits, demons and whatnot) and a cursed video game is definitely in that ballpark. So, I went into […]
When I heard that Robert Patterson would become the latest Batman let’s just say I was underwhelmed (and if you’ve followed Pattinson’s career at all you likely thought the same thing) because he just didn’t fit the character. So why is it that he seems to work so well? I think that it’s because Matt […]
What I enjoy most about is that horror cinema is that it encompasses a whole menagerie of movies. And sure, you have iconic movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street (and its many sequels), Friday the 13th, Halloween and movies of that ilk, but you also have horror movies of a more comedic bent, like […]
Visually I really enjoyed David Blue Garcia’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre for it’s retro approach to horror, which is to say the movie offered ample amounts of gore, most of which looked practical. It’s not something you often see these days, so it’s always welcome when you do. What I didn’t particularly like is that the […]
I didn’t see Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley in theaters – something I share in common with more than a few people, apparently. It’s currently on Hulu in the United States, where I hope it reaches a larger audience because it deserves it. That being said, I think that I understand why it underperformed in […]
Recently I watched Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and visually speaking it’s a feast for the eyes and ears (I’ve never been particularly enamored of the work of Hans Zimmer, but he does some really interesting things here). Villeneuve acquits himself admirably exactly for the reason I originally thought he wouldn’t, namely he knows how to compose […]
I didn’t see 2015’s Fantastic Four (otherwise known as ‘Fan4stic’) because I had a problem with Fox’s treatment of the Marvel properties they had licenses to (Daredevil and yes, the X-Men) and apparently I made the right move because it was panned popularly and critically (though the clusterfuck that was the making of the movie […]
I really enjoyed Rupert Bryan’s The Hike mainly because, despite being written and directed by men, it acts in a fashion that doesn’t feels the same as movies of this type typically do, such as I Spit On Your Grave (2010) and The Woman (2011), when wronged women raise Hell on the men that wronged […]
I really wanted to like Alien: Covenant (2017), though if I had to be honest it’s a particularly stupid movie at points where it didn’t need to be, mainly for reasons of ‘movie,’ though to see it you have to manage to look beyond the gorgeous production design and visual effects, both Ridley Scott trademarks. […]
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