Tagged: sci fi

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...

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

January 27, 2019

Sundance 2019: The Death of Dick Long, by David Bax

Even if you’re not familiar with the term “butt rock,” you’re definitely familiar with some of the genre’s luminaries and, in any case, you can probably conjure up some idea of the sound based on the name alone. Referring to...

lincoln hayes / movies / podcast / What the Hell Are You Watching

January 17, 2019

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with David Metzger

In this episode, Lincoln is joined by filmmaker and co-creator of Vermont Film Essentials David Metzger to discuss E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

lincoln hayes / movies / podcast / What the Hell Are You Watching

January 8, 2019

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Iron Man with Patrick Marran

In this episode, Lincoln is joined by jack-of-all-trades Patrick Marran to nerd out about Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and comics in general. Check out Pat’s side hustle BAR ROVER and follow his latest producing project, M.Beth Productions, an all-female re-imagining of MacBeth!

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 11, 2018

Bird Box: Alone in the Dark, by David Bax

Is anything actually worth living for against all odds or do we just soldier on out of primal instincts of self-preservation? It’s a solemn question to ponder, which is perhaps why Susanne Bier’s Bird Box only really goes so far as to...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

November 20, 2018

I Do Movies Badly: The Man in the White Suit

Kind Hearts and Coronets may have been delightful but The Man in the White Suit is delightful! A great comedic performance from Alec Guinness centers a film with a clear focus on what it’s satirizing, resulting in enough cathartic laughs and cynicism of capitalism to...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 14, 2018

Jonathan: Push the Button!, by David Bax

Once, on this website’s official podcast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 alum Frank Conniff observed that we are, for the most part, past the point of producing the kind of truly awful movies they lovingly mocked on that series because the baseline of...

Tagged: sci fi

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

Sundance 2019: The Death of Dick Long, by David Bax

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with David Metzger

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Iron Man with Patrick Marran

Bird Box: Alone in the Dark, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: The Man in the White Suit

Jonathan: Push the Button!, by David Bax

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