After seeing a handful of the remakes, I recently decided to sit down and watch the original 1960s Ocean's Eleven. I assumed, without giving it a second thought, that the remakes inherited their structure from the original movie. Everybody knows that Ocean's Eleven is the original heist movie, a...
"You're going to take journey to a time and place you've been before. All you have to do is follow the sound of my voice."
It's the not-too-distant future. The world's oceans have risen, leaving most land masses flooded by varying degrees. There have been mass uprisings as flood refugees scramble...
One of the best zombie movies I've seen, and I've seen a bunch. This probably isn't for every zombie movie fan. It's relatively low-budget, or maybe mid-budget, the pacing is slow, and the zombies probably aren't what you're used to. But this movie is absolutely unique, for lots of reasons, and ever...
Not "The Arrival" with Charlie Sheen, just "Arrival (2016)".
Scifi has a funny history with cinema. It started out as cheap pulp fiction about grown men in funny suits. And then history started all over with 2001: A Space Odyssey. That movie redefined what scifi could be, and I think broadly sp...
In this horror movie, Sara Price travels to Japan to look for her identical twin sister Jess, who was last seen wandering around in the Aokigahara forest near Mount Fuji. Everybody fears the worse, because Aokigahara is said to be a popular destination for people considering suicide. There's a lot o...
Army of Thieves is a prequel to the zombie movie Army of the Dead. Surprisingly, it's not zombie movie and it's one of those rare second films in a series that's better than the first.
Dieter was probably the only character in the first movie whose name I remembered after the movie was over. He...
Las Vegas has been quarantined due to a zombie outbreak, and the USA plans on dropping a low-yield nuke to clear everything up. But there's 250 million dollars locked in a safe beneath a world-famous casino. Let's go in and retrieve the money!
It's a really good setup, 80% Escape from New York a...
Several years ago, a video game called Mechanicus was released by Bulwark Studios. I found the game before I'd started playing tabletop wargames, but after I'd discovered Black Library, so my main question was whether the video game would accurately reflect the cult as it was presented in the book...
In an effort to keep better track of what I watch, I'm reviewing the movies and shows as much as I can. No spoilers in this one.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop-motion movie about a fox whose love of stealing chickens from local farms endangers his family and community. It's based on a Roald Dahl boo...
A Castle for Christmas is a Netflix original movie starring Brooke Shields (from Muppets Take Manhattan) and Cary Elwes (from Princess Bride obviously).
The story goes something like this. The main character, played by Brooke Shields, is an author of romance novels and in the 12th book in the...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
Professor Lillian Stemmler (Eve Arden) has developed an experimental drug that temporarily boosts (or reduces) all attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, a...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
Deep in the Ozarks lives a girl called Clemency McGill, and she's psychic. OR she's a THRUSH agent trying to trick UNCLE into delivering top agents into the hands of evil.
That's the...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
There's a [fictional] micro-nation in Europe that exists exclusively as a safe haven for international criminals. Got a price on your head? Go to Ingolstein, where everyone is welcome a...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
Evil THRUSH is after Dr. Remington, a leading geologist. What does THRUSH want with a geologist?? Nobody knows, but UNCLE figures that if THRUSH wants to kidnap him, it's probably impor...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
In this episode, we get a break from THRUSH, with the main villain being a British mob keen to monopolize the global supply of diamonds. To ensure their success, they team up with Delga...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
First of all, I'll say that I get it. Looking at a "season" of The Man from UNCLE compared to modern TV shows, it's amazing to see how much got produced. There are thirty episodes in...