Tagged: sci fi

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

June 16, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: Spring

Benson and Moorhead’s Spring is a marvelous exploration of suspense over surprise, focusing on two closed off characters whose world views of objectification stem from their vulnerabilities and fears of loss (even if its female lead is far more interesting than its...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 27, 2020

The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax

In the entrancing, energizing opening sequence of Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night, Everett (Jake Horowitz), the young man from the local radio station, makes his way through seemingly every nook and cranny of a 1950s high school gymnasium, instructing...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

May 13, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: The Brother from Another Planet

The protagonist in The Brother From Another Planet doesn’t speak one word throughout the entire film but allows the people that he meets and the neighborhood in which he meets them to give us a realistic picture of what it’s like to...

2020 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / TCM Fest 2020

April 20, 2020

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

As you are probably aware if you’re reading this, in lieu of what was supposed to have been the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood this past weekend, the network devised a “Special Home Edition.” For four days...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

March 23, 2020

Movie Meltdown: There’s Nothing to Do in Outer Space

Settle in for an extensive discussion of the sci-fi “classic” Battle Beyond the Stars. And this is a film that definitely gives us a lot to dig into, considering the movie is produced by Roger Corman, written by John Sayles,...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

February 21, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: I Think We’re Alone Now

It’s thirteen minutes before any words are spoken in I Think We’re Alone Now but, by that time, we already know all we need to about the film’s main character, his world, and how he sees his role in it. If...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 22, 2020

Color Out of Space: Curse Broken, by David Bax

There have been multiple film adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 short story “The Colour Out of Space,” from 1965’s Die, Monster, Die! to three separate movies since 2008, including cult director Richard Stanley’s anticipated return to filmmaking after being fired...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

October 10, 2019

Criterion Prediction #210: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Alexander Miller

Title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers Year: 1956 Director: Don Siegel Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, King Donovan Synopsis: A mysterious phenomenon strikes and Doctor Miles Bennell realizes that everyone around him turns out to be duplicate alien...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

October 2, 2019

Criterion Prediction #209: The Cars That Ate Paris, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Cars That Ate Paris Year: 1974 Director: Peter Weir Cast: John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles, Max Gillies Synopsis: After a car accident that fatally wounds his brother, drifter Arthur Waldo is stranded in the small community of...

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

September 6, 2019

TIFF 2019: Bacurau, by David Bax

Assuming it doesn’t take too long for the shock to wear off that Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighboring Sounds, Aquarius) has, along with co-director Juliano Dornelles, made an unabashed, committed, gory genre movie, it should very quickly become apparent that, for...

Tagged: sci fi

I Do Movies Badly: Spring

The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: The Brother from Another Planet

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

Movie Meltdown: There’s Nothing to Do in Outer Space

I Do Movies Badly: I Think We’re Alone Now

Color Out of Space: Curse Broken, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #210: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Alexander Miller

Criterion Prediction #209: The Cars That Ate Paris, by Alexander Miller

TIFF 2019: Bacurau, by David Bax

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