I really wanted to love Hulu’s reboot/relaunch/continuation of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and while there were many pleasures to be found – for instance, Ben Lovett’s music and Eli Born’s cinematography – there was one problem that I found to be unforgivable, virtually a cardinal sin as far as relaunching anything goes. And that’s knowing when […]
I recently canceled by subscription to Hulu, mainly because between free Tubi, Netflix and Amazon it felt like a bit of an also-ran (I had the tier with commercials because even at that point the value proposition never quite worked for me). It goes without saying that literally the day I cancel my subscription I […]
If you’ve had your fill of Rick And Morty – I haven’t though sometimes I find the show too clever for it’s own good. It’s definitely a smart show, but I feel as if on occasion it rubs viewers noses in how witty it is, which gets tiring. And then there’s Archer – another great […]
I grew up reading comics so seeing the characters I was figuratively weaned on turn up on television and movies is a very gratifying experience. That being said, if you see anything often enough – while the bloom doesn’t necessarily wear off – you do get more critical about it. Which is my way of […]
On October 7th Hulu will premiere another attempt to interpret the work of Clive Barker with Books Of Blood (2020) and I’m not at all optimistic because I’ve seen The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Dread (2009) and Book Of Blood (2009) never mind the Hellraiser movies, of which only three or four are worth watching. […]
There’s quite a few problems with the adaptations based of the work of Clive Barker – of which there’ve been plenty – though the greatest in my opinion is that Barker tends to have nothing to do with them (beyond writing the material they’re based upon). I don’t claim to know what’s going on behind […]
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is in a very similar vein as The Thing (1982), Deep Star Six (1989), Leviathan (1989) and Harbinger Down (2015) but is novel enough that it’s it own thing. It’s a very beautiful, thoughtful movie about what happens when good intentions go horribly awry and there’re no villains – monsters, Yes, […]
Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You is an ambitious movie, way more ambitions that anything a first-time director has any right to tackle (prior Riley co-directed a short with Chris Wroubel). Lakeith – or is that “LaKeith? – Stanfield (Knives Out) is Cassius Green, a guy who’s moving through life in a perpetual state of […]
I have never heard of Radioflash before I caught it on Hulu recently, but this is a damn excellent movie. The movie revolves around the odyssey of a father and daughter Chris and Reese (Dominic Moynahan and Brighton Sharbino) who’re trying to reach their grandfather, Frank (Will Patton) who lives deep in the backwoods after […]
Trick has put me in a awkward place because it’s not only a not very good movie, it has very little to redeem it (it stars Omar Epps and the great Tom Atkins–The Fog, Escape From New York, Night of the Creeps, etc–though they’re mostly wasted) In fact, what’s worse is that the central concept […]
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