The world of Saturday Night Fever is at best morally ambiguous and at worst downright evil. Male friends are, for the most part, not friends at all, just people to get a ride to the nightclub from and to drink and take drugs with. Women are barely considered people, and are passed around to satisfy men's sexual … Continue reading Movie review: Saturday Night Fever (1977)
\I'll put the summation at the top: a sure sign of a successful music documentary is that it makes you interested in its subject even if you are not a fan or even if you are not familiar with the artist at all. And, while I am a Bee Gees fan so cannot know this … Continue reading Movie review: Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020)
The past decade-and-change has seen a glut of remakes of horror films from the '70s and '80s. Most of them have been quicky cash grabs. Suspiria, to its credit, has a different approach, taking a few elements of Dario Argento's frightening exercise in the capacity of sound and vision to terrify and incorporating them into … Continue reading Movie review: Suspiria (2018)
Note: Yesterday, the death of horror director Stuart Gordon was announced. I'm posting this look at his 1987 film, Dolls, in his memory. Rest in peace. ---- Don't let the freaky poster art fool you--Dolls is as much a comedy as it is a horror film, and not usually the subtle, dark comedy of Stuart Gordon's masterpiece, Re-Animator, … Continue reading Movie review: Dolls (1987)
If I were associating words with The Amazing Spider-Man (the character) one of the first ones I would say is, "Fun!" Which is in large part what's wrong with The Amazing Spider-Man (the movie)--it's no fun at all. The setting is no fun. This New York City's colors don't pop like a comic book; rather, … Continue reading Movie review: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
An Indian and his white blood brother seek a hidden treasure in order to buy their way out of trouble. Manitou's Shoe seeks to be to westerns what Airplane! was to disaster movies, but it ends up not even being what Spy Hard was to spy movies. The film's only redeeming feature, aside from maybe … Continue reading Movie review: Manitou’s Shoe (Der Schuh des Manitu) (2001)
The Gardners are a somewhat eccentric but likable American family who have left city life and moved out to a farm to raise alpacas (the animal of the future!). A meteor strikes their property, accompanied by an indescribable color. Strangeness commences. A gripping tale of the devolution of a close-knit family, made more horrifying because … Continue reading Movie review: The Color out of Space (2019)
Alert: Lots of spoilers (and griping). The Rise of Skywalker starts out pretty good, and at first I was hopeful that all of the negative things I had heard were not true or exaggerated. I heard a lot of negative from some quarters about The Last Jedi, and I ended up liking it more than most. … Continue reading Movie review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
I liked Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane. I was interested in seeing what came next. I did. The Cloverfield Paradox is deadly dull. Like waiting in the doctor's office for the entire length, but there aren't even old magazines to distract you and your phone is dead. This is one of those cases where the blog post is just … Continue reading Movie review: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young programmer, wins a contest to spend a week at the estate of Nathan (Oscar Isaac), a tech genius who has developed an artificially intelligent robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander). Caleb's job is to interact with Ava to determine if she passes the Turing test and is truly conscious. Ex Machina … Continue reading Movie review: Ex Machina (2014)
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