[Spoilers ahead] There are two curious trends out there these days which have played hob with both science fiction and supernatural horror. Both of them are on display in Pungo: A Witch’s Tale. The first one, admittedly, has been around for a very long time but it seems far more common these days. Consider for […]
Read more "Pungo: A Witch’s Tale 2020"There’s no secret about why this film was made: I mean, a film about crop circles on an isolated farm surrounded by acres of cornfield that premiered on the Sci Fi Network only a few months after M. Night Shyamalan’s movie Signs came out? What an amazing coincidence, right? But you do not — in […]
Read more "Silent Warnings (2003)"This is one of those films I somehow or other missed out on back in the Eighties. Even though Roger Ebert’s review made me want to see it. I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up watching it sooner or later. But I never expected that I would end up writing about it […]
Read more "Masters of the Universe (1987)"As I noted not too long ago, in the movies “Quantum” means “weird.” After all, the general argument is that the rules of physics stop working once you reach the Quantum realm and anything can happen. So we shouldn’t exactly be surprised if filmmakers try to imagine some way in which we could descend into […]
Read more "The Quantum Devil (2023)"I suspect that it might be John Carpenter’s fault. Prince of Darkness was certainly one of the first times it happened, but by now it has been done so many times that it has become a cliché: in the movies, “Quantum Mechanics” means “weird.” It gets invoked to explain whatever lunatic thing is happening in […]
Read more "Quantum Cowboys (2022)"There’s one thing we need to get straight here: A lot of people think that Fantastic Voyage is an adaptation of an Isaac Asimov story. This is not true. Nor do I see how anyone who took a hard look at this film and saw that the entire story revolves around a machine that reduces […]
Read more "Fantastic Voyage (1966)"Honorable Mention I have to warn you, I love this film. Yeah, I know that most of the critics out there haven’t been too kind towards Bunraku. And, in a way, I get it. Bunraku is pretty extreme. It is a triumph of style over substance. It has a simple and very familiar storyline. And […]
Read more "Bunraku (2010)"I’ll admit it. I love a minimal film which is trying to get as much mileage out of its tiny budget as possible. Particularly when it’s a lovingly made French horror film about a mysterious creature. Resonnances is one of those films I’ve been trying to find for a very long time but which has […]
Read more "Resonnances (2006)"A few years back, I wrote an essay on Giant Robots in the Movies for Clarkesworld magazine. While I tried my best to discuss every single one of these movies (well, up until the sudden boom of direct to DVD CGI Mecha of the late Nothings and early Twenty-teens, when they became too thick on […]
Read more "Invader (1991)"The opening scene of this film (featuring aliens, big machines and a giant green monster) is followed by a title card announcing, “Five Billion Years Later.” Which is a fairly good warning just what sort of movie you’ve got yourself into. Now, if you have any doubts about who The Killer Robots are, when we […]
Read more "The Killer Robots and the Battle for the Cosmic Potato (2009)"
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