Fantasy Films of the 1980s Part 1
A couple of days ago, I watched the second season of the Witcher. It’s very much modern tv fantasy — endlessly elaborate backstory, CG monsters
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In Search Of… S05E06 Moon Madness
Let’s start with the visuals: We open on the lights of a police car. Driving music, shots of busy streets. Looks like a crime drama,
Villains and Prequels
A little while back, I wrote an article mocking the Netflix series Ratched. This was a somewhat enjoyable but mostly quite silly show that purported
Tales of Frankenstein – 2018
This one is a little tough to write about because a) it’s genuinely bad and b) I quite like it. It’s cheaply made, amateurishly acted
Jurassic Park – 1993
The dead are brought back to life using technology, and then turn on their creators, so sounds like a Frankenstein movie to me. But it goes a little further than that superficial similarity.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Frankenstein Must be Destroyed was one of the first Hammer films I ever watched and frankly, I didn’t like it. Looking at it again, I
Why stop at Ratched?
What other villains would benefit from the addition of a preposterous backstory?
Review – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
I went into this one not expecting to like it. I didn’t care for Jurassic World, and frankly I only saw this one because it
9 (Movie) (2009)
9 is computer animated children’s movie, perhaps a little darker and scarier than many children’s movies but otherwise not especially memorable. The visual design is
The Mummy (2017) Review
Let me start by saying that this wasn’t completely awful. Maybe all the terrible reviews I read had the effect of managing my expectations, but