Tagged: fantasy

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

January 12, 2022

The Cast of Cthulhu: Dark City

Well, it’s our first episode of the new year and boy, do we have a kick ass guest to help ring in 2022! Stopping by to drop some knowledge on us about Mycenaean architecture and Lovecraftian horror is author, film...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

January 12, 2022

Movie Meltdown: No Way Home

This episode we return to the Super Series with a vengeance as we discuss Spider-Man: No Way Home and all things Marvel. And as we work to make sense of the alternate universe we now live in, we also bring up… Hawkeye, Daredevil, Kingpin,...

2021 / afi fest / afi fest 2021 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 19, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Medusa, by David Bax

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Medusa opens with a solo interpretative dance performance to Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Cities in Dust” until, a couple minutes in, the camera pulls back to reveal that what we’ve been seeing is actually being watched...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

November 17, 2021

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Lighthouse

After a long delay caused by the non-zero chance that the boys were marooned by weather in an eldritch beacon, the boys found someone who likes their lobster in Stephen Foxworthy, co-host of the Disenfranchised podcast! 2019 was a banger of a...

dayne linford / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 21, 2021

Needle in a Timestack: Lonely Are the Pre-Determined, by Dayne Linford

Time and intimacy are two of the great, opposing pleasures of film, wrapped up in each other like quarreling lovers. Neither the beautiful, monumental face close enough to touch, nor the singular, brief moment arrested forever, will last when the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 30, 2021

Arrebato: Try for the Kingdom, by David Bax

Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato, an absolute freak-out masterpiece from 1979 newly restored by Altered Innocence, has had a new logo added to its head, for a distributor called Anus Films with a symbol that riffs on that of Janus Films but...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 30, 2021

The Green Knight: Off With His Head, by Dave Platt

“Tell me a tale of thyself, so that I may know thee.” “I have none to tell.” “Yet.” This exchange, early on in David Lowery’s stunning new film, The Green Knight, between King Arthur, his nephew Gawain, and Queen Guinevere...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 30, 2021

Nine Days: What’s It Like to Be Alive?, by Dave Platt

In Edson Oda’s affecting debut feature Nine Days, Will (Winston Duke) is a man who lives alone in a house that stands isolated in the middle of a vast desert landscape. It is his job, we learn, to interview prospective...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 21, 2021

Mandibles: Flyweight, by David Bax

Quentin Dupieux’s last two films, Deerskin and Keep an Eye Out, represented a newfound level of intellectual effort on his part, a willingness to apply his trademark absurdity to something beyond superficial weirdness while still, of course, leaving some room...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 21, 2021

Siberia: Wide Open, by Alexander Miller

When you watch Abel Ferrera’s Siberia, you’ll be tempted to “figure it out” and engage with the film the way you would with any conceptual work of art. This might sound biased or opinionated but if you go into this...

Tagged: fantasy

The Cast of Cthulhu: Dark City

Movie Meltdown: No Way Home

AFI Fest 2021: Medusa, by David Bax

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Lighthouse

Needle in a Timestack: Lonely Are the Pre-Determined, by Dayne Linford

Arrebato: Try for the Kingdom, by David Bax

The Green Knight: Off With His Head, by Dave Platt

Nine Days: What’s It Like to Be Alive?, by Dave Platt

Mandibles: Flyweight, by David Bax

Siberia: Wide Open, by Alexander Miller

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