Tagged: sci fi

2019 / cannes / cannes 2019 / luiz oliveira / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 20, 2019

Cannes 2019: Bacurau, by Luiz Oliveira

Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

May 17, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Tarantula, by David Bax

As far as Tarantula‘s Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar) is concerned, the spider the size of an office building is only the second most confounding thing to stroll into town. What he really can’t seem to get over is the...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

May 14, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Monkey Shines

Monkey Shines starts out as an inspirational tale of a man overcoming adversity with the assistance of a super smart monkey and turns into a horror story of a man trying to overcome the adversity of his super smart monkey. Its...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

May 13, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Monster Isotopes

This week we kick off a new running series where we focus on sci-fi movies. Listen as discuss the 1960 Italian feature Atom Age Vampire. The poster is awesome, the trailer is amazing… but does the movie itself hold up as...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Isolation and claustrophobia are about the hardest hitting one-two combination the horror genre can deliver. If not baked right into the premise (The Descent, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead), they’re often deployed to heighten a scene’s tension (the...

david bax / monday movie / movies

April 1, 2019

Monday Movie: Mad Love, by David Bax

1935’s Mad Love has kind of a crazy plot but it has an even crazier pedigree. The final film directed by Karl Freund, the brilliant cinematographer of The Last Laugh and Metropolis fame, Mad Love is also the Hollywood debut...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / west anthony

March 13, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Deadly Mantis, by West Anthony

Shout! Factory, home to many lovingly-crafted horror blu-rays under their Scream Factory imprint, is lately turning their attention to some of Universal’s goofier sci-fi/horror B-films of the 50s. There are few goofier than 1957’s The Deadly Mantis, in which a...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 6, 2019

Captain Marvel: I’m All I Wanna Be, by David Bax

During the first act of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel, when the movie is concerned solely with the actions of a platoon of alien space marines, I started to get my hopes up, imagining that the cheap-looking sets...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 6, 2019

Criterion Prediction #181: Children of Men, by Alexander Miller

Title: Children of Men Year: 2006 Director: Alfonso Cuaron Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Clare Ashitey, Danny Huston, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor Synopsis: A disaffected bureaucrat becomes involved with a plot by an activist group led by his estranged ex-wife...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2019 / Theatrical Review

January 28, 2019

Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

Even a cursory glance at the pedigree behind Relive would be enough to get one’s hopes up. It’s from Jacob Estes, the director of Mean Creek, and it stars Brian Tyree Henry, Mykelti Williamson and Alfred Molina in addition to its...

Tagged: sci fi

Cannes 2019: Bacurau, by Luiz Oliveira

Home Video Hovel: Tarantula, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: Monkey Shines

Movie Meltdown: Monster Isotopes

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Monday Movie: Mad Love, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Deadly Mantis, by West Anthony

Captain Marvel: I’m All I Wanna Be, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #181: Children of Men, by Alexander Miller

Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

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