There are moments when the movie you are watching seems to eerily predict future events. Consider Abigail: here we have a Russian film released in 2019, set in an alternate, locked-in world, where everyone goes in terror of a mysterious disease which shows no symptoms in the infected. Not in its earliest stage, at least. […]
Read more "Abigail (2019)"Girl drowns while at a party, bright lights appear and save her, and the next thing you know she’s on the road with her old boyfriend trying to get somewhere…important. And that pretty much sums this one up. Mind you, the girl, Alex, is now telekinetic. And dangerously radioactive. Sean, her ex, is getting sicker […]
Read more "First Light [At First Light] (2018)"Someone just pointed out to me the similarities between the stories about fairies in the old legends (which aren’t as delightful as the modern version) and the typical accounts of alien abduction and UFO encounters. Certainly, the traits given the aliens in these stories are clearly supernatural: they pass through walls and cannot be stopped […]
Read more "The Device (2014)"Perhaps the strangest thing about this very strange film is that former underground animator, Ralph Bakshi, thought that he was making a family film. It is also very hard to figure where to classify this one. We have a post-apocalyptic world, with robot armies and a villain who has recovered some of the ancients’ weapons […]
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