Review: An American Pickle (2020)
In the early 20th century, Jewish immigrant Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) is accidentally knocked into a vat of brine at the Brooklyn pickle factory where he works. Preserved for a century, he is awakened in...
Comics Review: The Department of Truth (2020)
It’s increasingly hard to write fiction centered on conspiracies these days. I swear to Christ, they used to be fun. Back in the ’90s it was a blast to watch “Spooky” Fox Mulder pontificate on the secret maste...
Review: Verotika (2020)
I’ll say one thing about Verotika, shock rocker Glenn Danzig’s batshit insane anthology horror flick: it proves how crude and ultimately useless star rating systems are. I shudder (and this thing is on Sh...
A Geek’s Guide to Dune: Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming Blockbuster
Well, we’ve recently received our first real look at Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year (although, to be fair, it...
Review: The Devil All the Time (2020)
The central thematic image of The Devil All the Time is presented to us early on. Serving in the Pacific theatre of World war II, marine Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgård) comes across another marine who has bee...
Alex Winter Faces the Music with the Return of Bill & Ted
It’s been 29 years since Alex Winter last strummed the air as Bill S. Preston, Esquire, lifemate and bandmate to Keanu Reeves’ Ted “Theodore” Logan, in the cult teen comedy, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)...
Review: Ad Astra (2019)
If you don’t sort yourself out, you will die alone five billion miles from home. That, in the shell of a nut, is the central thesis of Ad Astra, the new film from writer/ director James Gray, The Lost City of Z...
Review: Crimson Peak (2015)
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver Based on filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro's back catalogue, not to mention his well documented ...
Review: The New Mutants (2020)
After her village is wiped out by what appears to be a savage storm, young Cheyenne Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) awakens in a school/ hospital/ prison for young mutants run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga). D...
10 Years ago, Tomorrow When the War Began Almost Became Australia’s Biggest Action Franchise
Without interrogating the relative health or robustness of Australia’s screen industry (we could be here for days and it’s apt to get bloody), can we at least agree that we should, by this stage of the game, h...