Somehow, this one managed to fly under my radar. That’s unusual for an Indy film which has earned more that its share of critical praise. Not that I’m complaining: I’m always happy when a film like this comes out of nowhere and whacks me over the head. And what a strange and remarkable film this […]
Read more "Freaks (2018)"Who says sequels can’t be better than the originals? Now, when I say that, a lot of people will naturally think of The Empire Strikes Back or The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2), but this time we’re talking about a film by… The Polonia Brothers. Okay, that’s strange. Almost as strange as their weird career, […]
Read more "Revolt of the Empire of the Apes (2017)"It’s a classic situation — and one I’ll admit that I love. A small group of people wake up in what appears to be a prison — or perhaps a mental hospital — with no memory of how they got there or who they are. There are others locked up in other rooms, but no […]
Read more "Shadow Puppets (2007)"There are some films out there that are so curious it is hard to know what to think of them. Somehow, it seems like a lot of them ended up on video back in the Eighties. Music of the Spheres was one of those films funded by the Canadian government. They used to fund lots […]
Read more "Music of the Spheres (1984)"This is basically the cheap Nineties direct to video version of John Carpenter’s The Thing. Well, one of them. It starts a little differently, at least: a group of losers trying to carry off a heroin deal accidentally blow up their own boat and end up stranded on a deep sea oil platform. Only it’s […]
Read more "Proteus (1995)"
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