One of the strengths of the anthology film in horror, is that horror works really well in short form. It is almost as much the medium of the short story the way that Science Fiction is the realm of the novella and novel, and heroic fantasy is the realm of the novel. This is also why the horror comics of the 50s and 60s leant themselves well to anthology TV series and the anthology film in particular. Read more
God Told Me To is an interesting exploitation film. On the one hand, it’s a pretty clear-cut science fiction film on a lot of levels, but on another hand, it has some interesting concepts it plays with with societal paranoia and copycat crimes that gives it a bit of depth. Read more
This time we head to save an Asari Monastery, and follow up on-board the Normandy.
This week, in a special episode of Nintendo Power Retrospectives, I’m taking a look at the companion book to the NES Classic all-in-one console, from Prima. Read more
This time we finish getting our stuff together and head out for our next set of missions.
We now come to the beginning of the Star Wars Expanded Universe as we know it. Read more
I really like anthology films – particularly when it comes to horror. Anthology films let you take a brief period of time to tell an exciting, concise story that can scare you, excite you, or creep you out. Perhaps this is due to many great horror stories being short stories. One of the masters of the horror story was Edgar Allen Poe. This brings me to Extraordinary Tales, an animated anthology film adaptation 5 of Poe’s short stories. Read more
This time we’re covering issue #45 of Nintendo Power for February of 1993.
Note: I forgot Nester’s Adventures this issue – I apologize. Read more
This time we deal with some of the aftermath of the attack on the Citadel.
King Kong is a film that is widely held as a classic of cinema – with some of the iconic monster photography in cinema. It is a film whose visual effects have held up very, very well, but narratively hasn’t held up quite as much.
You know the old joke of Slasher films having “30 minutes with jerks”. This film is more like “90 minutes with jerks”. Read more
This time we take back the Citadel from Cerebus, contend with a traitor, and have our first meeting with Kai Leng.
This week I’m giving my (belated) thoughts on Kumoricon 2016, along with brief thoughts on Eva 3.0, and my thoughts on seeing Akira on the big screen for the first time. Read more
This time we team up with another old Krogan buddy to investigate some missing Krogan scouts, and signs of the Rachnai.
Arguably, the best films of Roger Corman’s career were his adaptations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe he made with AIP. They had some of the highest on-screen production values of the films he directed, and had some of the finest actors he ever worked with – especially this film’s stand out star, Vincent Price. Read more
It’s interesting having viewed the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers after I’ve seen the remake. It’s interesting to see how many beats the remake cribbed from the original, but which executes on them so very differently, with a different emotional payoff. Read more
This time we take down a Cerebus air defence installation.
This time we’re continuing with Legends of the Force with a look at the first third of Marvel’s initial take on Star Wars – how it came to be, who wrote it, and the stories that were told. Read more
This time we take a moment to chat with the crew, particularly our party members, and see the state of the party.
My prose review of the horror film Death Valley is up.
What’s worse than a horror film that’s bad? A horror film that’s bad because it’s boring and annoying. This is the issue with Death Valley, a slasher film with an interesting concept, that fails in the execution in multiple respects. Read more
My prose review of Phase IV is up on the blog.https://countzeroor.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/film-review-phase-iv/
Phase IV is an underrated, very weird film – the only dramatic film directed by Saul Bass, who is best known as designing the movie posters and opening credits sequences for the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Read more
Cerebus has seized a colony world, and is murdering the populace, so we move in for a rescue op.
