The horror movies we typically remember most aren’t the big budget Hollywood blockbusters, but the smaller pictures that are a little off the beaten path, the ones that slipped through the cracks when we weren’t looking. They may get little attention at first, but after a while of making the streaming service and Red Box… Read More Shallow Graves: The Blackcoat’s Daughter
At about the midway point of It Comes At Night I began to feel like it would have made a better book, like McCarthy’s The Road. It was positioning itself to be one of those atmosphere films you hear so much about, setting the stage to be an interesting headpiece, but then it decided to… Read More The Pendulum Swings Once More
You might not have noticed it, because it seems so normal these days, but just about every movie hitting the multiplex is either a sequel or expansion of some cinematic universe. The days of wondering if can they tie it all together when a secondary character discovers a magic hammer in the sand are over.… Read More Season of Sequels
The night before the news of his passing broke, my friend James messaged me that he had just finished watching A View to a Kill, the last of the Roger Moore era James Bond films. Having gotten the James Bond Collection on Bluray the week before, he had begun working his way through a rewatch… Read More The Gentleman Spy
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The first time I can recall a face sticking to the name Charlie Hunnam in my often unreliable memory bank was during a marathon session of Sons of Anarchy following its second season on FX (before it shit the bed with an Ireland misadventure). I was desperate for something to watch at that very minute… Read More Finding a Place Between Dislike and Hate in The Lost City of Z
Now that Star Wars mania is gearing up for it’s annual bombardment of our senses, as it plasters every surface of the Earth with some incantation of Lucasfilm licensed images before the December release of Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, I thought it would be nice to look back on the days leading up to the a previous… Read More Midnight in the Garden of Good and Prequels
