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sRussian cinema can be interesting. I have watched my share of Russian made WW2 movies on Tubi. They are on a big scale. In the 1950s, the Soviets made Ilya Muromets, a fantasy movie based on mythology (also on Tubi). In December 2006, I was Russia and saw billboards in Moscow for a movie called […]
This is a guest post by Shogun Montgomery: All exorcism/demonic possession films are viewed through the comparative lens with The Exorcist. In 1973, William Peter Blatty achieved the height of cinematic horror with that film by treating the topic with the gravity it deserves. There is no disillusionment about Reagan’s possession in the tone of […]
Guest post by Jared: It’s amazing how your average moviegoer was blinded by the bread and circus of the MCEU for a decade. Years ago, the first Iron Man film broke a record. So did Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Black Panther, and Endgame. Those films broke global box office records despite being absolutely horrible, […]
Enigmas drive art. The first one there creating something new was the square peg that is perceived as an odd ball, the loser, the outcast. One type of movie that I realized that I like watching is the bio-pic about artistic types who struggle with family, life, society. These sort of movies are different. I […]
Firepower of The Legend of Tarzan Chris L Adams Intro <Note: This article originally appeared in ERBapa #149> In the interests of continuity (See: The Guns of Geronimo (ERBapa #142), A Message in a . . . bottle? (ERBapa APA #143), and Guns of The Land that Time Forgot (ERBapa #145 and Castaliahouse.com) regarding prior submissions […]
I wrote this review of Conan the Barbarian (2011) on September 3, 2011 immediately after seeing the movie. I put it up at the old Conan forum which is now gone. I have been meaning to run this for some time and thought why not now? So, let us travel back to 2011: I caught […]
By Chris L. Adams I love movie props; it seems like I have always had a fascination with the bits and bobs utilized by film crews to create that aura of reality on the business end of a camera. There’s something about the things worn or carried or held by the actors that is almost […]
Crimes of Grindlewald: How the Wizarding World Was Wiped of All Wonder!
Monday , 19, November 2018 Movies, Pulp Revolution 7 CommentsAs a reviewer, I’m told I have two distinct responses to movies. The first is “This movie is so bad they should bring back the stocks so we can lock up everyone involved and pelt them with rotten vegetables.” My second review posture is “Eh, it didn’t totally suck in every single way,” which I’m […]
Overlord: It’s Saving Private Ryan Meets Resident Evil Meets Captain America!
Monday , 12, November 2018 Movies 2 CommentsOverlord is Saving Private Ryan meets a Resident Evil video game meets Captain America: The First Avenger. And I mean that in very specific and detailed ways. The WWII movie is about a unit of the 101st Airborne being parachuted into Normandy the night of the D-Day invasion (the invasion being Operation Overlord, hence the […]
The Dead: When Making a Zombie Movie Almost Kills You
Monday , 5, November 2018 Movies Leave a commentThe Dead is a legitimate cinematic achievement. Shot on location in Burkina Faso, in West Africa, the twelve-week shoot saw the cast and crew face corrupt cops and officials (who demanded bribes to do their jobs and who occasionally mugged members of the production team), food poisoning, dysentery, and malaria, and the sudden death of […]
I’m assuming you’ve seen at least one episode of Scooby Doo. (If you haven’t, the hell are you doing here?) In every episode, there’s a scene something like this: Scooby Doo comes out dressed to the nines in a tuxedo. He sashays over to the monster the gang has been running from and dumps a […]
Venom: Sony Should DEFINITELY Fire Their Trailer Guy
Monday , 8, October 2018 Movies Leave a commentSo I went and saw Venom. It’s a Tom Hardy movie, and he was phenomenal in Warrior and also The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Dunkirk, and so forth. He’s a great actor, but all the trailers for this film were terrible: among other things, the special effects for the Venom parasite were awful. The parasite […]