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 […]
With So Many Options At The Multiplex, There’s A Real Chance The Signal Will Not Get Through. Which Would Be A Pity For awhile I was considering not writing a review of William Eubank‘s The Signal, till I noticed that with behemoths like How To Train Your Dragon 2, 22 Jump Street, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Transformers: Age Of […]
Tim Story is a prolific multihyphenate producer-director, who in the 12 years between 2002 to 2014, produced one feature and directed 10. In 2011 he began a partnership with Kevin Hart, directing the standup specials Laugh At My Pain, followed by Let Me Explain (with Leslie Small) in 2013. Between those two films he directed Think Like A Man, with […]
SPOILERS ABOUND! IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST GO AWAY TILL YOU HAVE BECAUSE SPOILERS ARE LIKE LANDMINES. THEY’RE HIDDEN TILL YOU STUMBLE UPON THEM, THOUGH BY THAT TIME IT’S TOO LATE, AND SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS LOST.
Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla Isn’t The Same Monster Many Of Us Grew Up Watching, Which Sometimes Isn’t A Good Thing In The Beginning… I remember when I was growing that I spent many Saturday afternoons in front of a television, watching monsters like Gamera, Mothra and Godzilla. They tended to have come into being due to the hubris of Man, as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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