You can probably guess from the title of this article that I don’t think Saturn 3 is a great movie though what I find most interesting is that you can see the potential for greatness all over it. As I mention in the video, the original director, John Barry, left the production after only two […]
As far as I’m concerned, I’ve enjoyed everything – to varying degrees – that Mike Flanagan has produced for Netflix, but all good things must come to an end The Fall of the House of Usher is the last thing we’re likely to see from the auteur in that space for a long time, since […]
UFO was Gerry Anderson’s first live action television series (he typically worked with puppets, creating shows like Stingray, Terrahawks, Thunderbirds, and others). The series revealed around S.H.A.D.O (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organisation) and its mission to protect the Earth from alien invaders. It’s a show I enjoyed growing up, particular due to the remarkable theme […]
I reviewed the first episode of Disney+’s Moon Knight – The Goldfish Problem – last week and was perhaps a bit uncharitable because the Moon Knight depicted in the series was a later interpretation of the character, and not the one I grew up reading. The earliest incarnation of the character had none of the […]
I took advantage of the $1.99 Disney+ deal that I mentioned a week or so ago and while going though their catalog I realized that the bulk of the shows and movies available on the service I either didn’t care about seeing, had already seen or already own. So there isn’t much point to it, […]
Did you see The Haunting of Hill House (2018) on Netflix? If you haven’t it’s still there and well worth seeing though the reason I mention it is because I have a suspicion that it owes a lot to Peter Medak’s The Changeling, which is likely among the best ghost stories ever put to film. […]
Danny and Michael Phillippou’s Talk to Me is a remarkable debut for the two Australian filmmakers and while it doesn’t do anything that you haven’t seen before, it does it so well that you don’t notice how familiar it actually is. The story revolves around a group of young people who with the use of […]
No matter what James Gunn says, The Flash not only isn’t ‘…one of the best superhero movies…‘ it’s got more dodgy CGI than any big-budget major studio release in recent memory. That being said I don’t think the movie’s greatest problem are the special effects more than a movie being built around Ezra Miller’s Flash, […]
Usually having a ridiculous premise is a death sentence for most movies because if one thinks the main idea that undergirds it is stupid, then they don’t tend to head to the nearest theater to see if their initial impression was the right one. And M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin has a fairly […]
When I first saw the trailer for The Fearway I really liked it – what’s not to like about a mysterious black Dodge Challenger threatening a seemingly innocent couple? It’s the stuff horror movies are made of! – that is, till the trailer revealed the antagonist. That really bugged me because when movies do that […]
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