Kill Order cannot be a finished movie. There’s no way this wasn’t a workprint accidentally sent to the distributors in place of a final product. I understand that low-budget action filmmaking has its niche audience and that underdeveloped plots and…
Movie Review: The Cloverfield Paradox
Um……what? No seriously………WHAT? There’s obviously going to be some air of mystery surrounding the sudden arrival of The Cloverfield Paradox, the third installment of the very loosely tied together Cloverfield universe. While 2008’s Cloverfield and its pseudo-sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane in 2016 had rather hushed and rushed…
High Maintenance 2×03 Review: “Namaste”
High Maintenance gets really real in “Namaste” – although I wish it had been directly named after the yoga place “Namastuy” – and plays out like a slice of New York real estate life. Unlike the past two episodes of the season,…
The Magicians Review 3×04 “Be the Penny”
Apologies for missing out on recounting the misadventures the characters went on in last weeks episode “The Losses of Magic”, for it was a delightful installment of the series. The big takeaway however, was Penny’s believed (pretty real) death that…
7 Horror Villains That NEED to be in Video Games
The film and video game worlds are hardly related, and yet are consistently inspired by one another, with ideas, themes, imagery and even characters and franchises finding themselves interwoven between the two mediums. Those last couple things are among the…
Before We Vanish Movie Review
For years mankind has been obsessed with the question of whether or not there’s life to be discovered amongst the stars. Even more pressing is whether extraterrestrials would see humans as equals or enemies. Sometimes that question is played out…
The Great Buddha + Movie Review
Pickle (Cres Chuang) and Belly Button (Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen) are two broke, down-and-out drudges whose lives are as exciting and meaningful as their names might suggest. Pickle works as a night security guard at a metalworks manufacturing giant Buddha statues;…