Ummm… Okay… And then this happened. Look, I need to say this: I’m really impressed with Matthew Cooper’s films. Particularly At the Mountains of Madness, which is near perfect. Admittedly, Markham is a first effort and it shows, but his second film has a clever story, great editing, and some pretty decent CGI monsters. And […]
Read more "When the Earth Gives Up the Dead (2022)"Honorable Mention Ummmm… Where to even begin on this thing? Well, let’s try Luigi Cozzi: The film everyone remembers Cozzi for was the wild and rather enjoyably silly Star Wars rip-off Starcrash. It is also the real high spot of his career, although he did create a number of interesting Spaghetti Sci Fi and horror […]
Read more "Blood on Méliès’ Moon (2016)"How did you spend your time during the Covid lockdown? I suppose a lot of people played endless games of solitaire or bingeing TV series or chatting on social media, but not Ryan Braund. Instead, he created an animated film entirely on his own. This is actually a remarkable feat because of the mind-boggling number […]
Read more "Absolute Denial (2021)"Wow. I’d forgotten how much I’ve missed films like this. Not that there have ever been that many of them. I suppose it helps that Robert Rodriguez has had a bit of time to work on this one — after all, he wrote the original version of the screenplay over twenty years ago. But I […]
Read more "Hypnotic (2023)"Where to begin… I suppose it might help to note that this hugely ambitious Korean film, loaded with weird special effects and dizzying action sequences, failed to attract a huge audience at the time, and left viewers wildly divided between those who adored it and those who hated the very ground it treads upon. Yeah, […]
Read more "Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim [Resurrection of the Little Match Girl] (2002)"You know there is something wrong right from the beginning. A raging storm, a row of spikes set out on the road, a tire blows out, and a young man is forced to go to a neighboring house for help. Only the suspiciously helpful man he meets has a very strange request for him. As […]
Read more "Ultrasound (2021)"I had a sudden epiphany the other day and realized the correct term for one of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s films is a “try-to-wrap-your-head-around-this-one.” It isn’t anything as simple as what is called the “mind (*Bleep*)”: after all, many of the films generally dumped in that category do not actually make sense as so […]
Read more "Something in the Dirt (2022)"It is very difficult to classify Strawberry Mansion. It has a science fictional setting, a very retro near future where the protagonist drives a first generation Corvair and works as a tax auditor, assessing how much people owe for their dreams. On the other hand, some would describe this as more of a fantasy, as […]
Read more "Strawberry Mansion (2021)"Wow. You never know what you’ll find when you start looking for forgotten science fiction movies. Yeah, we know most of them are forgotten for a reason, but every once in a while you find something unexpected, like this little known TV movie I’ll admit I didn’t expect too much from this one: after all, […]
Read more "Virtual Nightmare (2000)"(aka, GoShogun: The Time Stranger) There’s weird, then there’s Japanese Anime weird. And if you want proof you need look no further than GoShogun: The Time Étranger: here we have a children’s bright and colorful Giant robot television series, much in the vein of Voltron, which was adapted four years after the series ran into […]
Read more "Sengoku machine GoShogun: toki no ihôjin [GoShogun: The Time Étranger] (1985)"
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