(aka, Edgar Allen Poe’s Decapitarium) They seemed like such a happy couple. At least, that is, until Dr. Wilkinson accidentally blew up his wife’s body, leaving her a living head. Science can be so hard on your marriage. Particularly when your angry wife, in a fit of bodyless pique, decides to start killing people and […]
Read more "Decapitarium (2021)"(aka, Gangster World) And once again, we’re looking at an eccentric kickboxing martial arts-heavy science fiction thriller which Avi Nesher produced. While he isn’t quite as interesting a filmmaker as Albert Pyun, he produced, directed, or wrote a few genre films which are notably strange, not to mention two absolutely bizarre films, She (1984) and […]
Read more "The Outsider (1997)"What would you get if you remade The Road Warrior (aka, Mad Max 2) as a French artfilm? Well, it would be pretty strange. Maybe as strange as Terminus. Except that the world of Terminus is not really post-Apocalyptic. The one major city we see looks beautiful and largely undamaged, even if its residents look […]
Read more "Terminus (1987)"Netflix strikes again! Once again, the only way to see a promising film is by subscribing to their service. It is unlikely that it will make it to Disk any time soon, unlikely that you’ll ever be able to put it under the Christmas tree for the kids, and even more unlikely that it will […]
Read more "The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)"Australia has a rather small film industry — and yet it has made quite a few memorable films. Some of them are even quite good. I suppose this is partly because it is a rather small industry and nearly every film it makes is effectively an Independent. After all, making films by committee is one […]
Read more "Arrowhead [Alien Arrival] (2016)"“Seth Ickerman” — who is really the French directing duo, Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard — first came to my attention with the “trailer” for a film called “Ickerman,” which featured a dazzling combination of a high-tech future, a touch of Film Noir, and a lot of movie nostalgia. I still hope they will get […]
Read more "Blood Machines (2019)"I am in the minority on this one. Ghost Source Zero has generally received rather poor reviews and I’ll admit you could list quite a catalog of flaws if you chose. But then, that’s true of a lot of low-budget and Independent films. However, this is a remarkably intelligent film, filled with all sorts of […]
Read more "Ghost Source Zero (2017)"There’s a terrible flash of light and most of the people in New York City vanish all at once. The few who are left have become mindless drones following the instructions of the big machines which have just arrived. Except there are a few survivors who haven’t joined the ranks of the zombie-like drones. And […]
Read more "Battle: New York, Day 2 (2011)"This is one of those movies I like more than it probably deserves. Which doesn’t change the fact that this is an reasonably good slow burn time travel movie with an interesting notion or two behind it. It is also a reminder that you don’t need millions of dollars worth of effects for a science […]
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