by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
Most of the “best of” or “must see” lists slithering around on the internet are really pretty incomplete, shallow, or just plain crappy. But leave it to our esteemed brethren at Screenrant.com to come up with a truly useful and surprising list...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
It’s an odd world when you can’t be sure you’re going to get the crap scared out of you. But that seems to be the story with the Austrian cult-horror film Goodnight, Mommy released on December 1. Critics fell in love with this moody, bizarre story...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
The Syfy Channel’s adaptation of S.A. Corey’s excellent near-future SF series The Expanse was an anomaly from the very beginning: a TV show based on an actual book by actual SF writers, not a freshly made (and frequently derivative) one-off by TV People. When we first...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Nov 29, 2015 | New, Uncategorized
Pretty damn close. AMC’s new post-apocalypse proto-medieval series that’s all murder and intrigue has a lot to recommend it, including great production design, a relatively fresh execution of an increasingly familiar set of tropes … and the fight...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
One thing comes as no surprise: Guillermo del Toro is a master of macabre imagery. And even a glance at this wordless trailer for his upcoming gothic ghost story, Crimson Peak, reaffirms that: shot after shot, both beautiful and unsettling. Directed and co-written by...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
We confess, we would watch Lawrence Fishburne and Thomas Jane read the damn phone book. But this is WAY better. Tweet Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
