Rented a very bad movie on iTunes called Radioflash. The premise and angle was interesting so I gave it a blind watch… which was a big bad mistake. So a Radioflash is another name for an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) … Continue reading
Also watched the Netflix original sci-fi flick I Am Mother. This is a not particularly original premise done moderately well on a pretty low budget (that looks like it has a higher budget). So the flick takes place in … Continue reading
And, finally, watched the new Netflix horror flick The Silence. Which has nothing to do with A Quiet Place… honest! This is based on a book published in 2015… so odds are Quiet Place may have been inspired by the … Continue reading
Checked out the new Netflix original horror flick Bird Box. This is a movie that’s being compared as an also-ran to the excellent A Quiet Place because one movie is about being very quiet around an invading alien force and … Continue reading
Checked out the Netflix Original How It Ends. This is post-apocalyptic road trip if, by post apocalypse, we mean a handful of days after. And by apocalypse, we mean something vague. Something very vague. As if the film makers couldn’t … Continue reading
Checked out the new movie from James Franco, a kind of sci-fi Mad Max amalgam on a super low budget called (creatively) Future World. This is what happens when Franco and his friends get super lazy, dash together a script, … Continue reading
The third Maze Runner film (The Death Cure) limped (har) into the theaters this weekend and I went to see it out of some kind of obligation to see it through. Wasn’t excited, was barely interested. The first Maze Runner … Continue reading
Rented the horror/zombie film Day of the Dead: Bloodlines, an alleged remake of the third “Of the Dead” films by George Romero from 1985. There’s something going on with the rights to Day of the Dead since this is the … Continue reading
Checked out (via streaming) the new movie The Bad Batch. This is the director’s follow-up to her critically loved skateboarding Muslim teen vampire movie from a few years A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. That was a curious and … Continue reading
The new movie It Comes at Night is a small indie horror/suspense movie where not only does nothing actually come at night, but also the movie comes dangerously close to things actually happening for 80 minutes. But, shew, mostly nothing … Continue reading