South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho doesn’t make what I would call crowdpleasing movies. His films tend to be thinly veiled political allegories taking aim at things like American imperialism and its relationship with South Korea (The Host) or class struggles in general (Snowpiercer). Bong Joon-ho’s work tends to point some Read more…
I think it is safe to assume that, even for the most devoted fans of the franchise, the Terminator series is something of a mess. After an all-time classic original movie and an impossibly better sequel, I suppose there was nowhere for the series to go but down. Despite being Read more…
Halloween was yesterday, so why not see a scary movie I haven’t seen before? I opted for Scream before it left Netflix. I hadn’t seen that before. At least not in its entirety. I’d seen the ending a couple times. Knowing the ending didn’t exactly make me want to see Read more…
While I have never been much for horror movies, I have read a lot of horror novels. Why was one something I could get into more than the other? I don’t know. Maybe it has more to do with how my mind translates scares from a page as opposed to Read more…
It’s Halloween today. That means for a movie review site like this one that it’s time to talk scary movies! Or something. I need to check the by-laws. Anyway, here are 10 movies for a good Halloween scare. It’s not a top ten list, but if I give it a Read more…
To date, I think the best episode of the podcast was the one covering All About Eve. See what I said about that movie originally on the provided link. via AFI Countdown Challenge #16: All About Eve — Gabbing Geek
Why didn’t Stardust work? Seriously, why didn’t this movie work? Look at the pedigree for this one. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, the same director who gave us X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass and various Kingsman movies was behind the camera for this one. The story was based off a novel by Read more…
We may not have covered Snow White all that thoroughly on the last episode of the podcast, but here’s what I had to say about it the first time. via AFI Countdown Challenge #49: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs — Gabbing Geek
What to make of The Current War? Produced back in 2017 with a rather impressive cast, the movie sat on a shelf for the better part of two years due to the fact its original distributor was the Weinstein Company. And that company has had some…problems. Thanks to Martin Scorsese, Read more…
There were certain movies my ex-wife watched rather frequently. Her taste wasn’t bad, but she didn’t necessarily go out looking for these movies. If she found one as she was flipping channels, she left it on. What that meant is I got to see these movies rather frequently, but rarely Read more…