Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The anthropomorphic personification of Death in cinema is almost as old as the art form itself, whether Death is playing chess with Max Von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or crashing Vincent Prices party in The Masque of the Red…
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A masked killer stalking a small group of survivors, as they run through the halls of what appears to be an abandoned ghost ship, may sound like elements to your standard slasher flick, which to be fair it does, but…
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If you were to look up the word “Hubris” in the dictionary one should not be surprised to find the definition altered to now describe it as, “A quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence i.e. Warner Brothers…
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Over the years Kurt Russell has played some very dangerous characters; the anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, the suicidal Captain O’Neil from Stargate, and the psychotic Stuntman Mike from Tarantino’s Death Proof, so it’s almost hard to…
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Adapting a popular novel is never going to be easy, the difference in mediums is too great for there ever to be a perfect translation from book to screen, but in the case of the 2008 adaptation of Steven Gould’s…
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Giant monsters raging across an Asian city is certainly nothing new, Godzilla has been it doing for over sixty years now, but in Nacho Vigalondo’s genre busting film Colossal things get a little weird as he manages not only make…
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Its possible way may never get a female James Bond, as we are still waiting for them to hire Idris Elba as Bond, but until they do we at least have this atomic fueled spy thriller by director David Leitch…
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In this last installment of the Dexter Riley Trilogy we once again find Medfield College embroiled in financial problems and scientific shenanigans; it’s clear by this point that the formula is getting a bit tired and the studio wisely decided…
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What do you get when you take an immense supernatural tale filled with dense prose, add four legendary Hollywood actors, throw in some cheap jump scares, and then cram it all into a two hour running time?
Next to flying and super strength I’d say the power of invisibility ranks up there as one of the more popular power sets people would pick if given the chance but it’s also the one power that easily opens up…
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