Monsters is a super-low-budget ($15,000) movie filmed on digital with consumer-grade FX. It’s about the results of a space probe that crashes in Mexico and the giant squid-monsters that appear after. The US and Mexican government have quarantined part of … Continue reading
Let Me In is the American remake of the very interesting Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. This remake was ok but suffered from a few flaws… mainly in not getting the mood quite right. The Swedish version … Continue reading
Hot Tube time Machine is a whole movie that missed opportunity to be really really funny. The rather (intentionally) stupid and silly movie posits what if you could travel in time back to the 80s by partying in some kind … Continue reading
To my surprise, the remake of the Karate Kid is pretty good. It’s basically a direct remake only with younger kids, an old guy who can do actual kung-fu (unlike Mr. Miyagi’s stunt double), and a change in setting (China). … Continue reading
The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading
Taken on its own merits, the remake of Clash of the Titans is a decent movie. It looks good, the action is pretty good, and then it ends. Damned by feint praise, sure. It’s not a BAD movie and the … Continue reading
Checked out the new remake of Alice in Wonderland – I wasn’t sure if I was going to go see it but the reviews have been decent enough so I gave it a shot. The movie was pretty good. I … Continue reading
So I went to see The Wolfman… and, you know, for as much practical makeup as they appeared to use for the Wolfman, they had CGI bear and elk for close-up work… Anyhoo, I didn’t much like this movie. It … Continue reading
If we’re talking borrowing from other post apocalyptic franchises, Book of Eli is more Fallout than Road Warrior – it’s about scrounging out a life, looting, searching, surviving – encounters with waste wanderers and small craphole towns trying to create … Continue reading
So every 12 year old girls in Ohio and I went to see the new Twilight flick New Moon… and the audible gasps over various half-naked men was somewhere between amusing and creepy… but, yeah, it’s a serviceable sequel without … Continue reading