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KNOCK AT THE CABIN

February 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment

KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Perhaps it’s having a child at the center of a film that provides M. Night Shyamalan with the added spark necessary to making a solid, thoroughly enjoyable film. I refer not just to THE SIXTH SENSE, which catapulted the director to rock star filmmaker status, but also to WIDE AWAKE, the film just before that… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, gay bashing, home invasion, Pennsylvania, plague, remote cabin, sacrifice

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

November 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

And so we discover with TERMINATOR: DARK FATE that time is not an endless loop where events repeat zoetrope fashion. Rather it is a curly-cue, not unlike a fusilli. So it is that in this version of the saga, the apocalypse that was/will be Skynet never happened, and John Connor is a name unknown in… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, enhanced human, gyno-centric, robots, sequel, Skynet, Terminator

HELLBOY

April 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HELLBOY

There are many ways for a film to go wrong, and while HELLBOY may not have explored all of them, it has certainly come very close.  Dialogue that is not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, editing that teeters between pedestrian and laughable, and a story that is merely an excuse for carnage… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, Arthurian Legend, England, giants, pigboy, reboot, squished monk

THE DARK TOWER

August 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE DARK TOWER

Intermittently garrulous, yet generally somnambulant, THE DARK TOWER disappoints on almost every level.  Based on the Stephen King series of the same name, the cinematic version blows a kiss to the novels, then goes its own way plot-wise for reasons that defy explanation, unless it’s a scheme similar to the one in Mel Brooks’ classic… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate universes, apocalypse, based on Stephen King novels, book to screen, nightmares, portals, Razzie-worthy, shining

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

July 14, 2017 By 2 Comments

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

There is something heartening in a sequel to a sequel that is as good as the original. Imagine how much more heartening it is that WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, the third in the trilogy that launched with the excellent DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and continued with the equally excellent… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, Apocalypse Now, kindness, natural selection, sequel, vengeance

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

March 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

The world of JJ Abrams is rife with Easter Eggs and red herrings.  He has such a penchant for them that one can be forgiven for finding them even when they may or may not be intentional.  Take, for example, a conversation in 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, a film he produced, but did not write or… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, bunker, end of the world, Golem, IV drip, jigsaw puzzle, survivalist

A Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

July 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A  Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

Inflated and grandiose, TERMINATOR GENISYS rethinks the Terminator mythos by coming up the novel notion that changing the past might have more than the intended repercussions. Hence, when the John Conner (Jason Clarke, near left) in this timeline sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney, far left) back to 1984 Los Angeles to save John’s mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke),… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, franchise reboot, John Conner, Kyle Reese, Los Angeles, narrative, robot, San Francisco, Sarah Conner, Sci-fi, Skynet, T-1000, T-800, Terminator, time travel

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

February 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

  THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is a first-rate existential horror film, as well as a psychological thriller. I got the same vibe watching it that I had gotten watching PI and BRICK, the maiden efforts of Darren Aronofsky and Rian Johnson respectively. Writer/director Perry Blackshear understands more than just how to create evocative, even sumptuous, visuals, he knows… Read More »

Tagged With: ABSENTIA, alienation, apocalypse, cinema, Danny Boyle, dating, delusions, demons, director, emotional trauma, Evan Dumouchel, existential, friendship, horror, indie film, interview, isolation, loneliness, MacLeod Andrews, male-bonding rituals, Mike Flanagan, movie, OCCULUS, Pantheon of Evil, paranoia, paranormal, Perry Blackshear, primal fear, reality, schizophrenia, screenwriter, self-help, Slamdance, sound design, SUNSHINE, suspense, THE LOOK LIKE PEOPLE, thriller

BULLETPROOF MONK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

With a title like BULLETPROOF MONK, it’s not like we can expect a film that will be on the short list for next year’s Oscar™. Still, fans of Chow Yun-Fat will find enough here to keep them happy. Chow is the eponymous Tibetan monk, charged with keeping safe a scroll that could spell apocalypse if… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, immortality, martia arts, mysticism, tibet

Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Listen to the SOUND OF MY VOICE

For co-writers Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, making SOUND OF MY VOICE wasn’t just a labor of love, but one of passion. Batmaglij directed and Marling stars as Maggie, the enigmatic leader of a cult who claims to have come from the future to save her followers in a film that lets the audience decide… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, belief, Brit Marling, cinema, cults, director, faith, fantasy, film, indie film, journalism, LaBrea Tar Pits, narrative, politics, Sci-fi, screenwriters, SOUND OF MY VOICE, time travel, Zal Batmanglij

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