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…
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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…
Kim Possible (2019) – Review
With Disney Studios making billions of dollars off their live-action remakes, it’s not surprising that the Disney Channel would attempt the same thing with their animated shows. Thus the world has now been subjected to a live-action version of the popular television cartoon Kim Possible, but whereas Disney’s theatrical releases have sported budgets in the…
Winchester (2018) – Review
The 2018 horror film Winchester, written and directed by the Spierig Brothers, was not about the Supernatural adventures of Sam and Dean Winchester — much as we wish it was — but was in fact based on the history of the Winchester mansion, also known as The Mystery House or The House That Ghosts Built,…