I’m a fan of film noir, and I’m definitely coming to enjoy modern neo-noir. When I saw the trailers for Bad Times at the El Royale come up on my YouTube subscriptions, my interest was piqued.
Film Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 127 – A Changing World I
Tokyo 3 is under attack by G-Hound. Fortunately, Londo Bell is in position to come to the rescue. Read more
Film Review: Mother of Tears (2007)
Almost 20 years after Dario Argento released the middle installment of his “Three Mothers Trilogy” he made the final installment of the series – Mother of Tears. As with most series that take this long between installments, there is a sense that what you’ll get with the final installment can never live up to what expectations you’ve set for it. However, even then, Mother of Tears is particularly disappointing. Read more
DVD Review: Cheezy Horror – Vol. 1
One of the interesting things I like about the boom of interest in Exploitation film after Grindhouse, along with the rise of DVDs as a media format is the rise of the Trailer DVD – a DVD chock full of trailers for various exploitation films from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. They make for a great snapshot of a moment in time, showcasing both how films were sold (and what you could get away with in trailers), along with the movies being sold. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 126 – Refresher Course
I had a new viewer on the stream, so we have a recap of some of the changes Super Robot Wars V has from earlier games in the series. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 125 – Where Progress Leads III
We finish off this group of Dragons and interview our new aces. Read more
Film (Video) Review: Doctor Terror’s House of Horrors
The macabre house hunting expedition continues with an Amicus Anthology film featuring Donald Sutherland, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 124 – Where Progress Leads II
We get new upgrades for the Shin Getter Robo and for Mazinger Z, as we overcome Brocken (with more dragons to go). Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 123 – Where Progress Leads I
The crew of Londo Bell continues their patrols, and end up running into the forces of Brocken. Read more
Movie Review: Sugar Hill (1974)
“Blacksploitation”, is something I’d describe more as a cinematic movement more than a genre. This is because it spans just so many genres of cinema – action films, gangster movies, science fiction films, and horror movies – and sometimes even multiples at the same time. Such is the case with Sugar Hill. Read more
Film Review: Don’t Breathe
One of the issues with modern horror films, particularly those with a human antagonist, is the filmmakers feel the need to give a grounding to their villain’s methods that they feel believable, and they have the same need to make the protagonists just unlikeable enough that when bad things happen to them, things don’t feel overly cruel. The problem is that when this goes wrong it comes across to a degree like victim-blaming – and leads to a toxic message like the one put forward in your standard ’80s slasher film. Don’t Breathe manages to avoid that – barely. This review will contain a few spoilers. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 122 – Welcome Aboard
The Yamato now has a new crew member, and she gets a warm welcome. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 121 – An Invitation to the Future IV
We turn the tide, until OMG HAX! happens, and we learn that Amalgam had a mole… Read more
Legends of the Force Part XXV: River of Chaos
Moving back to Dark Horse comics, we have Louise Simonson returning to the Star Wars universe with Dark Horse Comics Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 120 – An Invitation to the Future III
The fight goes on, as Team Londo Bell takes on Leonard Testarossa and his enforcers. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 119 – An Invitation to the Future II
Bad News! The Jupiter Empire and Gamillan forces have just joined Amalgam. Good news! Londo Bell and the Yamato have arrived and with reinforcements. Read more
Movie Review: Inferno (1980)
Suspiria was what I’d describe as one of the best films Dario Argento ever made, with a tremendous visual esthetic, particularly through the use of color in the film, combined with the excellent score by Goblin. So, it’s not surprising that Dario made a semi-spiritual sequel. The second film, Inferno, introduced the thematic series that Argento named “The Three Mothers” trilogy, with the films based around three witches drawn from Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis. Inferno aims to basically be “like Suspiria but more so,” but it doesn’t quite work. Read more
Film Review: Suspiria (1977)
When it comes to giallo, the work of Dario Argento is something of a gap in my knowledge, which is a shame since he, like Bava and Fulci, are legends of the genre. Indeed, Argento probably had the greatest mainstream penetration of any work of Italian horror, through this work – Suspiria.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 118 – An Invitation to the Future I
Sousuke and Kaname head back to their old school, to think about the future – only to get an unpleasant interruption. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 117 – Parting of the Ways
It’s time for the Nadesico and Celestial Being teams to try to head back to their universe, and in turn, figure out if they’ve found a reliable way to universe jump. Read more
Film Review: House of Usher
I start off my October House of Horrors with a look at Roger Corman’s adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher” Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 116 – A Grudge Among Men
Some of the Londo Bell crew are rather annoyed by all the bishounen they’re finding themselves surrounded by. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 115 – Acting the Part II
Beecha is doing well in command of the Argama… aside from moving way the hell out into the open. Read more
Book Review: The Run-Out Groove
The Vinyl Detective was an interesting launch to a mystery series, with a mystery novel steeped heavily in 1940-50s jazz music, and in record collecting. The question to a book like that is how do you follow a work like that up and keep the framework fresh? Read more