When I first saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I didn't see actually see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I read a picture book in school, a sort of summary of the movie intended, I think, for kids too young to actually see the movie. When I saw the photos of Han Solo in India and t...
In an effort to keep better track of what I watch, I'm writing a post about each movie I watch. This isn't a review so much as it a note, but this post does contain minor spoilers. Stop reading if you haven't seen The Mummy (1999), and go watch it, because it's a classic.
The Mummy is a remake...
I recently saw the movie Late night with the devil (2023), and these are my notes about it. This isn't a review, it's really just so I remember what the movie was about 3 months from now. This post does contain spoilers. Cutting to the chase: Late night with the devil has some good ideas and som...
Since I was a child, I've been a fan of old cinema. Movies made before synchronised sound fascinate me both artistically and historically. I love that we can literally see, with our own eyes, what the world was like (or what filmmakers thought the world was like, in the case of fiction) 100 years ag...
I recently saw the movie Abigail (2024), and these are my notes about it. This isn't a review, it's really just so I remember what the movie was about 3 months from now. This post does contain spoilers. Cutting to the chase: Abigail is an OK horror movie that starts strong and then levels out an...
I recently saw the movie Barbarian (2022), and these are my notes about it. This isn't a review, it's honestly just so I remember what the movie was about 3 months from now. This post does contain spoilers. Cutting to the chase: It's an OK horror movie that starts stronger than any horror movie ma...
If you're a fan of horror movies, you may have experienced the half-way horror curse. It's that point at which a perfectly good horror movie that's been keeping you guessing for about 45 minutes finally reveals the monster to you, and then you promptly lose interest. It's the same problem, technical...
After seeing a handful of the remakes, I recently decided to sit down and watch the original 1960s Ocean's Eleven. I assumed, without giving it a second thought, that the remakes inherited their structure from the original movie. Everybody knows that Ocean's Eleven is the original heist movie, a...
"You're going to take journey to a time and place you've been before. All you have to do is follow the sound of my voice."
It's the not-too-distant future. The world's oceans have risen, leaving most land masses flooded by varying degrees. There have been mass uprisings as flood refugees scramble...
One of the best zombie movies I've seen, and I've seen a bunch. This probably isn't for every zombie movie fan. It's relatively low-budget, or maybe mid-budget, the pacing is slow, and the zombies probably aren't what you're used to. But this movie is absolutely unique, for lots of reasons, and ever...
Deliver us from evil isn't quite a horror movie, but a supernatural police thriller. That's not usually my kind of movie, but I didn't know what kind of movie it was when I started watching. To be honest, it captured my attention for a while, as the two lead cops in the story (Sarchie and Butler) t...
Not "The Arrival" with Charlie Sheen, just "Arrival (2016)".
Scifi has a funny history with cinema. It started out as cheap pulp fiction about grown men in funny suits. And then history started all over with 2001: A Space Odyssey. That movie redefined what scifi could be, and I think broadly sp...
In this horror movie, Sara Price travels to Japan to look for her identical twin sister Jess, who was last seen wandering around in the Aokigahara forest near Mount Fuji. Everybody fears the worse, because Aokigahara is said to be a popular destination for people considering suicide. There's a lot o...
Army of Thieves is a prequel to the zombie movie Army of the Dead. Surprisingly, it's not zombie movie and it's one of those rare second films in a series that's better than the first.
Dieter was probably the only character in the first movie whose name I remembered after the movie was over. He...
Las Vegas has been quarantined due to a zombie outbreak, and the USA plans on dropping a low-yield nuke to clear everything up. But there's 250 million dollars locked in a safe beneath a world-famous casino. Let's go in and retrieve the money!
It's a really good setup, 80% Escape from New York a...
Several years ago, a video game called Mechanicus was released by Bulwark Studios. I found the game before I'd started playing tabletop wargames, but after I'd discovered Black Library, so my main question was whether the video game would accurately reflect the cult as it was presented in the book...