The Rental Takes Its Time To Scare You To call The Rental horror is to mislabel it. While it contains scenes of abject unpleasantness and shockingly dark moments, it’s only in its ending it claims any real signifiers of the genre. No, what The Rental is, is a thriller with a heavy emphasis on character work,…
Kiss Me First Is More Than Romance Kiss Me First is what might happen if you take the plot of a Black Mirror episode and expand it out into a full show. It’s looking at the Oasis and its avatars from Ready Player One and deciding to scale that down for television. It’s a blend…
Mr. Robot Is A Rather Polarizing Show Mr. Robot is a show with an odd style to it. Brilliant, but boring. Evocative and yet slow. The best show I have trouble keeping my attention on for long stretches. Because, the storytelling, and even the pacing of the show, tells you one major thing: you are…
Aliens, meets, The Thing, meets, Gravity? The R-rated sci-fi thriller Life, starring Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Jake Gyllenhall and Rebecca Ferguson is now in theaters. Word is, if you like scary sci-fi thrillers, you might just like Life. Since April is a bit light on movies, now may be a good time to catch it. Here’s…
Hello there, and welcome to Today’s Short, where we go over short films in the genres of both science fiction and fantasy. Today’s short film: “Temple”. Let’s take a look! Director Nguyen-Anh Nguyen achieved a degree of notoriety as a filmmaker with his 2014 Akira fan film (or rather fan-made trailer) that received over three million views online. That project,…
Following up his exciting body of work, novelist/screenwriter/director Alex Garland has chosen his next project. After his director debut with last summer’s acclaimed hit Ex Machina, Garland will direct and adapt Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation. The book, published in 2014, describes what happens when a team heads inside a place known only as Area X. The…
I was hooked instantly. That’s probably the best way to begin talking about this trailer. It doesn’t start with some vague threat, or generic establishing shot. It starts on a metaphor, a literal fable, one about unchanging nature. But whose? Humanity’s, or something else? Mysteries are a powerful tool, and this trailer wields it with…
Tuning in… LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of…
Written & directed by Matt Duggan. Starring Josh Wingate, Alanna Prière, Michelle Lawrence, Morlan Higgins, John Burish, and Chris Pauley. 100 minutes. The film opens on a man, naked and disoriented, drowning in the swimming pool of a suburban home. He surfaces and stumbles into the house, which is filled with sympathy cards lamenting the…
Meanwhile, in Spain, people are probably sacrificing their souls to the devil instead of watching this film. People are setting themselves on fire and running through traffic instead of watching this film. I wish someone had told me that I would rather jump off of a cliff than sit through this film. Anyway, Deranged (2012) follows…
It would appear that I have finished one confusing series (The Leftovers) only to begin a new one that is also frustratingly mysterious. Intruders first aired on BBC America right after the Doctor Who premiere on August 25th, which is probably why I heard about it. Because in the beginning, there was death. The series opens with…
The most important question you will ask yourself is, “How come I didn’t know about this movie?” Director and writer Jeong-woo Park has still left me in shock after his film, Yeon-ga-si, or for us English speakers, Deranged. The plot follows the connected storyline of brothers Jae-pil (Dong-wan Kim) and Jae-hyuk (Myung-min Kim). Jae-hyuk is…
