What do you get when you combine shonky 70s Kung Fu movie sensibilities with overdubbed dialogue, an Extremely Irish King Arthur, rape, incest, and a director who turned down The Lord of the Rings to ...
2018-11-23 21:47:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis movie chosen by a "Fennelsher" patron.
I get frustrated by parodies that poke fun at aspects of an original work, only to commit the same sins. Movies that mock sexism and are still, f...
2018-11-19 07:53:50 +0000 UTC View PostYes, Split can be seen as yet another movie using mental illness as a plot point--a villainous trait to be feared. However, I think there's something valuable to be taken from its version of a final c...
2018-11-19 05:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a really weird movie to watch in 2018--not just because of increasing demand for stories that don't objectify women or minorities in pursuit of some dude's 'cool' fantasy, but because of what ...
2018-11-17 02:27:56 +0000 UTC View PostI just finished Pitch Black. It's 2 AM, I have class in a few hours, and I really want to see it all over again.
Let's dig into that a bit.
I love the colors. The blatant overuse of distortion...
2018-11-15 09:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I could shout for hours about WHY THE HELL THEY LET NICOLAS CAGE HAVE A SOUTHERN ACCENT AND A DRAWL AND A MULLET OH GOODNESS GOSH--but I'll digress.
Con Air is refried action thriller sold alon...
2018-11-15 04:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostHow do you make a movie after Die Hard, that's very much like Die Hard (complete with a similar antagonist, progression, characters, etc.), as the cinematographer of Die Hard, after people keep turnin...
2018-11-13 05:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe typical musical movie is an odd beast, come to think of it. If the stage is a step removed from film, than musicals are yet another, giant step away from that, requiring yet more specialized skill...
2018-11-13 03:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a passage in the Bible - Isaiah 45:6-7 - that really threw me for a loop when I was younger:
"That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside ...
2018-11-12 07:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FINAL SCENE OF THIS MOVIE IS NICOLAS CAGE RAISING HIS EYEBROW HIGHER, AND YET HIGHER, UNTIL HIS FACE TRANSFORMS INTO A FLAMING SKULL
Phew. Had to get that out of my system.
<... 2018-11-09 04:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the thing about seeing the two Bill & Ted movies back to back - it is an awful idea, and you should do it immediately.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure isn't *good*, per se. ...
2018-11-09 01:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostCOSMIC
COSMIC
COSMIC
Drench me in color. Make every shadow I cast a kaleidoscope. Create legend out of the broken potsherds of sin's de...
2018-11-06 05:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Dark Nights: Metal is a big ol' event about evil versions of Batman emerging from damned universes in the dark multiverse to (stay with me) drag the main DC Universe Earth in the light multiverse (STA...
2018-11-05 00:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostI have no idea how this got made.
What was the pitch meeting like? Who said, "That movie about the two totally bodacious teens going through history and kidnapping historical figures to do an utterl...
2018-11-04 05:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostYou Were Never Really Here is the first movie I've found to capture the reality of what suicidal ideation feels like on a chronic level.
Most of the time, movies treat suicidal thoughts and impulses...
2018-11-01 03:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wiz terrified me as a child.
That makes sense, because it is an unequivocally black science-fantasy body horror nightmarescape filled with the most disturbing, evocative imagery this side of ch...
According to the almighty memory of Twitter, I first watched Adaptation in June of 2016...Just before I announced the upcoming release of my first game, which would come out thirteen days later.
Let's be clear:
Vampire's Kiss is a bad movie.
The script and story are a mess. The workplace gender dynamics on display are both regressive, and unfortunately, still all too real. It's a semi...
2018-10-28 03:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post- WHO GAVE NICOLAS CAGE A FREDDIE MERCURY MOUSTACHE
- WHO ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN
- imagine being the person who gave Nicolas Cage a Hack3r skull etch-a-sketch with little flame buttons that li...
2018-10-28 02:16:06 +0000 UTC View Post
If you ask someone why the original Blade films were notable, one of the most common responses you'll get is that they were "cool". Specifically, Blade himself is cool.
Imagine my sur...
2018-10-27 04:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostHOLY CRAP VENOM
I walked in expecting very little. The trailer primed me to expect a so-so action thriller with a dull villain and some occasional fish out of water body horror come...
2018-10-27 04:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostLet's talk about hating God for a second.
*SPOILERS*
I think there are very few people of faith who have not been in Daredevil's position. Who did not despise God, or believe ...
2018-10-24 07:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis was...a really bad movie to watch right after A Knight's Tale.
Where the latter is a clever, entertaining historical romp with layers of unexpected depth, Gladiator is what pops out of an oven ...
2018-10-24 05:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Music Man takes us into a bizarro, absurdist world full of rubes for our con man protagonist to take advantage of, and eventually transforms Harold Hill into one of them.
It's...sweet. Kinda?
God it feels good to watch a movie you saw as a kid, and find it's better than you remembered.
A Knight's Tale does this thing - a thing it got heavily dinged for upon release - where it pl...
2018-10-23 08:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bodyguard is one of the best examples I've seen of a movie mirroring the perspective of its protagonist to artistic effect.
Kevin Costner's bodyguard places priority on his job to the detr...
2018-10-20 19:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostFour Weddings and a Funeral has one of the saddest happy endings I've ever seen. Charles and Carrie, standing in the rain, pledging their love amidst a dedication to never marry each other.
What's s...
2018-10-20 18:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostSPOILER ALERT
If you haven't seen A Beautiful Mind yet, check it out. It's pretty decent.
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2018-10-17 07:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sorry I didn't see this sooner.
Not in the sense that I'm apologizing to you. More that it has been added to a pile of regrets that only continues to grow with the arbitrary number associated wi...
2018-10-17 06:17:34 +0000 UTC View PostI like dark stuff--dark comedies, deep thrillers, you name it. I can mainline tragedy regardless of my emotional state (I'm not sure whether that says more about my taste or just me as a person).
Fi...
2018-10-15 04:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post