Do you enjoy movies that spend 1% of their budget on script and 99% on SFX? Then may I recommend Atlas, which is so thunderously stupid from the first five minutes that I wonder who it was made for. Teenagers? Idiots? Teenaged idiots? Plus, a lot seems to have been cut that would have otherwise explained things that are missing. Still, it’s silly fun if...
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Do you enjoy low budget slow burn ‘70s thrillers with a touch of horror that clearly saved nearly its entire budget for its climax? Then may I recommend Deathdream, carried by its actors and solid direction, which does a great slow transformation job and has a couple chills. (Including one stunt with a telephone pole that does not look like it was safe.)
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Do you enjoy movies that are terrible in every possible way? Then may I recommend Lords of the Deep, the last of the trilogy of aquatic horror movies released in 1989 that aren’t The Abyss. This one distinguishes itself by having the worst of everything. The best that can be said is it’s in color and a talkie.
Meanwhile, I amuse myself by pretending all
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Do you enjoy Liam Neeson action movies with a healthy dose—one might say an overdose—of patriotic themes and imagery? Then may I recommend the pro-gun, pro-olde-tyme-small-town-America The Marksman, which is ridiculously cliche in its plot and ridiculously average in everything else. Well, except Liam Neeson is above average to start, but aside from that, y’know?