“Coming Soon: Alien Species 2 – The Invasion” “Interactive Movies.” It was one of those things that came and went fairly quickly. It probably would have been more accurate to call them videogames with filmed inserts, but that didn’t sound sexy enough, I guess. They were supposed to be like playing a movie. That is, […]
Read more "Alien Species (1998)"Honorable Mention Over the weekend, I watched two films based on H.P. Lovecraft’s tale, “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” It is, of course, not only one of his best-known tales but also one of his most highly regarded. But of all his stories, it is also quite probably the one which has been adapted most often. […]
Read more "Markham (2020)"Sometimes I’m not quite sure what to make of some of these. You may recall my glowing review of the film MEAD, a remakable hybrid live action/animated film based on a short story by legendary Heavy Metal cartoonist Richard Corben. It was directed by a man named J. Allen Williams, whose one claim to fame […]
Read more "Darkstar: Terror at the Edge of Time (2023)"(aka, Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe’s War) What in the world did I just watch? I’d love to pretend that anything about this supposed Lawnmower Man sequel makes sense, but you know what? It doesn’t. Now it has been a long time since I saw the first film (I’m not a big fan, to put it […]
Read more "Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995)"I’ll admit it: I’ve watched my shared of post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies, but I’ve never seen one with a plot this complex. And, yes, post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies often do have rather complex plots. But offhand I can’t remember another one where it takes half an hour just to introduce all the major characters. It also has […]
Read more "Prototype X29A [Prototype] (1992)"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)"It happened so fast. One day, the digital effects in your new movie looked absolutely incredible. And the next? Well, they were already starting to look bad. Back in the late Nineties, and early Nothings, computer technology and CGI kept advancing at insane speed, with new animation looking outdated before it was even in the […]
Read more "A.Li.Ce (2000)"What a strange little film. I’ll confess my initial glimpses of the film had led me to expect something quite different from what I got. I knew that it was set in some distant post-Apocalyptic future, and I’d caught a glimpse of a few high-contrast black and white (or at least heavily desaturated) scenes, and […]
Read more "Circuit Nurse (1988)"
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