I know I probably shocked some of you when I said that I enjoy Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd as an absurd guilty pleasure. Yes, I’m talking about the one where Dredd takes off his helmet. And, as I found something good to say about that film, I imagine that some of you might expect me […]
Read more "Dredd (2012)"I think a few words are in order about guilty pleasures. Let’s face it, we all know that there are films out there which we love unreservedly, and find ourselves watching again and again despite their flaws. In fact, the sad truth is that we love them far more than we love a lot of […]
Read more "Judge Dredd (1995)"It’s always a bit worrisome when a famous director — or for that matter a writer or artist — decides to go back and revisit the works that made him famous. Perhaps it’s an attempt to relive the glory days. Perhaps it is because someone is willing to pay a lot of money for another […]
Read more "The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)"Look, let’s get one thing straight: Action movies are absurd. It goes with the territory. In fact, complaining about the absurdity of an action movie is a lot like complaining about the wind when you are out in a sailboat. It’s what makes the thing go. I know, a lot of people sneer at Deep […]
Read more "Deep Rising (1998)"This is a somewhat mysterious film. All I can tell you for certain is that it exists. But there are a lot of strange questions about it that I can’t quite answer. What is certain, however, is that it is a wild headtrip of a movie, which use some very minimal electronic effects to create […]
Read more "A régi idök sci-fije [Sci-fi of Old Times] (1972)"(aka, Mission to the Unknown) Those of you familiar with Doctor Who — or at least, those of you familiar with Classic Doctor Who — know about the catastrophic destruction of most of the early episodes of the show at the hands of the BBC. It was one of those classic bureaucratic cost cutting decisions: let’s […]
Read more "Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown (2019)"Honorable Mention Some of these movies feel like they are two entirely separate movies. Or, I suppose in the case of The Crime of Dr. Crespi, it is as if the movie woke up somewhere halfway through. Or is it just that Eric von Stroheim, an actor never exactly renowned for the subtlety of his […]
Read more "The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935)"As I sit down to write this, I find myself asking a very strange question: Is Memory Run a Canadian film? Yeah, I know it was filmed in Toronto, and that IMDB lists Canada (and the US) as its country of origin. But that’s not quite the same thing. After all, the homegrown Canadian Science […]
Read more "Memory Run (1995)"Thanks to his legendary work on the Quatermass serials, we tend to think of Nigel Kneale as a science fiction writer. But this isn’t really true. Or perhaps we should say that’s what he said. After all, he was never happy that he had been labeled a science fiction writer. A closer look at his […]
Read more "Kinvig (1981)"I’m trying to figure out what signals so clearly that this is a super cheap film. I mean, I’ve seen worse monster makeup in far more expensive films. Nor does the film quality look that much worse than most Eighties horror films. Perhaps it is the lack of music most of the time and the […]
Read more "Bloodsuckers from Outer Space (1984)"
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