I’m all for genre mashups — horror comedies or sci-fi mysteries can be a lot of fun — but if you start chucking more and more genres into your blender, the danger that the end product could end up becoming a tasteless soup increases exponentially. With writers/directors Jonathan and Josh Baker’s Kin, we get a…
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Bumblebee (2018) – Review
What happens when you get the man behind such animated films as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, and give him a live-action Transformers movie? Well, the answer to that is you get a movie that is pretty much the exact opposite of the Michael Bay atrocities — which have made billions of dollars…
Demon Seed (1977) – Review
Computers turning against man is certainly nothing new to the movies; we had the rogue HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then in the 80s we got Skynet trying to wipe out mankind in James Cameron’s The Terminator, and more recently, Leigh Whannell’s film Upgrade tackled a computer system with its own…
Upgrade (2018) – Review
With advances in computer/human interactions reaching levels that surpass even what we saw on shows like The Jetsons, with Siri, Google, and Alexa invading millions of lives, it’s not surprising that we are going to get more “fear of technology” themed movies. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gave us the chilling HAL…
Tarantula (1955) – Review
When it wasn’t atomic bombs creating giant monsters in the 1950s, it was your garden variety mad scientist, tinkering away in his beaker-filled lab, spilling behemoth creatures all over the landscape, and one of the most memorable examples of this is the 1955 creature feature Tarantula. Produced and directed by the legendary filmmaker Jack Arnold, Tarantula…