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Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) [Arrow Video Limited Edition]
When Graboids show up on Mexican land rich in oil, Earl Bassett is brought in to get rid of them again.
Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman (Mu zhong wu ren) (2022)
A blind bounty hunter stops by a woman’s house to rest and wine. Soon, he finds himself involved in her revenge against those who have wronged her.
Leave the World Behind (2023)
“Lady, people aren’t chocolates. D’you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard–coated bastards with a bastard filling.” – Scrubs
Director Sam Esmail’s “Leave the World Behind” is a mean, nasty, and cynical apocalyptic parable that stages the quintessential end of the world scenario but also takes a magnifying glass to humanity and the inherent paranoia that transforms a scenario from working together to survive, to survival of the fittest. While some of the symbolism is a bit clunky in some spots, “Leave the World Behind” is a very volatile and relevant take on how we’re more likely to pick at each other’s bones and fight for scraps when resources become finite. While that does feel like old hat post apocalyptic fodder, “Leave the World Behind” is refreshingly complex and quite horrifying.
Barbarella (1968) [Arrow Video Limited Edition] [Blu-Ray]
In a faraway future, a young woman goes through a string of misadventures while looking absolutely fabulous.
There’s Something In The Barn (2023)
One of the aspects that hinders Magnus Marten’s “There’s Something in the Barn” from being a real home run of a movie is that it never quite decides what it wants to be. Sometimes it’s a horror movie, sometimes it is fantasy, sometimes it’s just downright comedy, and it builds up this intricate universe with not a lot of explanation or extrapolation. “There’s Something in the Barn” could be good. It could be “Krampus” good, but it leans so much toward this fish out of water comedy that it loses sight of the whole premise involving killer elves, and this weird pact that is never fully explored or fleshed out.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Saules aveugles, femme endormie’) (2023)
Director Pierre Földes is not an artist prone to just giving us something that’s easily digestible and worthy of leaving us dangling. “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is probably one of the most uncommercial movies of the year, and the fact that it’s fully animated also works in its favor. The animation style that is used along with the often intentional drabness of it all allows for an almost ethereal aesthetic; it’s one that feels so dream like. It’s almost like someone just ripped random imagery from someone’s subconscious and manifested it through some pretty good rotoscoping and 3D animation.