The most foreboding image in Steven Soderbergh’s new outbreak thriller Contagion is an uncovered bowl of bar peanuts. I mean that as a compliment. At the heart of this star infested, globally minded, medical thriller, there’s a maniacal—even healthy if you will—sense of paranoia and anxiety surrounding our habits and social structures. Soderbergh takes a [...]
John Ross’ Freaky Faron is not the movie that the poster or the Netflix synopsis are trying to sell you. This is a subdued and very slight indie feature that feels like a juvenile take on film noir, produced, written and acted by a young crew cutting their teeth on filmmaking. As a result, the [...]
Bottom-line is this one’s only gonna hit the sweet spot of a certain cross-section of movie geek; the retro sci-fi/horror fan whose bread and butter is 1950s-to-60′s B flicks. It’s pitched as a mock-up of all those earnest but intensely cheesy ‘thrillers’ that featured invaders from another planet coming down in Styrofoam ships to melt [...]
There is a man. He may be a scientist or a therapist. He keeps a young woman locked in an antiseptic room and conducts experiments to test her emotional threshold. Many of these tests are incomprehensible, most seem to tax the woman on a level more spiritual than physical. Both the man and the woman occupy [...]
“What is this, anyway, some kind of comic book? We got robots, we got cavemen, we got kung fu.” Some kind of comic book indeed. The Eliminators is a great example of why the 1980s was such a fun decade for movies. You could head into your local multiplex and find oddball craziness like this [...]
Courtesy of Chris Kavan and Film Crave comes a list of monstrous mothers in the movies. A menagerie of crazy and diabolical women who strike fear into their progeny, check out these five fearsome females.
Seeing a movie like Cargo at the start of a 30 day sci-fi binge is very fortunate. The unassuming Swiss thriller by Ivan Engler is a sweet sort of surprise and a reminder of how real science fiction can be concocted on a small budget. If it were sandwiched in between bigger or more successful [...]