Creating a cinematic universe is not easy — just ask the people over at Warner Bros with their DC Extended Universe — but producer James Wan seems to have struck gold with the ever-growing collection of horror movies that have spun off of the success of his 2013 horror film The Conjuring. Though to be…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Mortal Engines (2018) – Review
The science fiction subgenre of steampunk has been around for quite some time, giving readers a Victorian speculative fictional world where anachronistic technologies, or retrofuturistic inventions, all exist in a historical setting. Possibly the counter-genre to this is dystopian fiction, which imagines a world in which oppressive societal control (and the illusion of a perfect…
Captain Marvel (2019) – Review
With twenty-one films currently making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one has to be chagrined that it took this long for the studio to give us a superhero movie with a female lead — it took the DC Extended Universe only four films to break out Wonder Woman, yet we’re still waiting for a Black…
The Void (2016) – Review
Basing your movie on Lovecraftian horror is not an easy feat, making a successful one is even trickier, but two Canadian filmmakers found themselves inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s repeatedly failed attempts to get his own Lovecraftian film, At the Mountains of Madness, into theaters, so with a little money — i.e. crowdfunded — writer/directors…
Hell Fest (2018) – Review
Two studios releasing movies with very similar subject matter is nothing new — Volcano and Dante’s Peak were dueling eruptions in ’97, then in 1998, both Deep Impact and Armageddon had the Earth being threatened by asteroids — but in 2018, we got Blood Fest, a film about a horror theme park designed to kill its…