Movie Lists… Ranking my Dario Argento movie experiences 9 Aug 202311 Aug 2023 This year, I've rather unexpectedly jumped into the world of Dario Argento movies. It began when I was gifted a copy of his 1986 film Phenomena which served as inspiration…
Hong Kong… Operation: Condor (Armour of God 2) Review 9 Jan 202313 Jan 2023 During the holidays, I did what I always seem to do and filled another gap in my pool of knowledge on Jackie Chan films by finally watching the sequel to…
Movie Reviews The Bride of the Monster (Delightful Schlock, a review) 13 Jan 202216 Jan 2022 Ed Wood, the 1950s Z-movie meister is best known for his classic So-Bad-It's-Good feature Plan 9 from Outer Space (original title: Grave Robbers from Outer Space) and until recently, this…
Movie Reviews… Monster Hunter (the Movie) Review 29 Aug 202131 Aug 2021 Paul W.S. Anderson's latest film project, Monster Hunter, had a heralding pre-release adventure from getting pushed back to getting boned by the Covid-Crisis like so many other movies. Sadly, what…
Hong Kong… The Protector (1985) movie review 8 Feb 20219 Jan 2023 In 1985, Jackie Chan made his second big attempt to break into American cinema after his first failed attempt in Battle Creek Brawl (in 1980) and a decade before he…
Movie Reviews… New Line’s TMNT Movies Mini Reviews 18 Jan 202119 Jan 2021 Over the holidays, I got a chance to re-experience New Line Cinema's TMNT movie trilogy. To be fair, I was never the biggest fan of the original live action Turtles…
Hong Kong… Fantasy Mission Force: A Bizarre Hong Kong Fever Dream incidentally feat. Jackie Chan 28 Jul 20209 Jan 2023 I recently had a chance to watch some old and obscure films from Jackie Chan's early career (mostly 1970s and early 80s) and came across a few gems, like the…
Movie Reviews… Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Review 8 Jan 20208 Jan 2020 The J.J. Abrams Star Wars trilogy ends in very much the same way it started: narratively jumbled, referencing the original trilogy a bit too much, with an over the top…
Movie Reviews Detective Pikachu (film review) 14 May 201914 May 2019 Before diving too deep into the review, a little background on my Pokémon experience. For me, Pokémon was very much a thing I associated with the late 90s and early…
Movie Reviews… Star Trek: The Motion Picture Review 18 Mar 20191 Dec 2020 Star Trek: The Original Series is my favourite iteration of Star Trek and some years ago I ranked the movies starring its cast on this very blog. I left The…
Movie Reviews… Which is the best Thing movie? 3 Nov 20182 Nov 2019 So, I recently had a chance to finally watch the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, which I reviewed on this blog several years ago. I was already familiar…
Movie Reviews Venom Movie Review 21 Oct 2018 Venom is Sony's latest and greatest foray into the increasingly over-bloated superhero film market. Those of you with more than a tertiary familiarity with Marvel Comics know that Venom was…
Movie Reviews The Predator (movie review) 17 Sep 2018 The Predator is, confusingly, the fourth or sixth film of the Predator film-series. Though not containing any too obvious connections, the film appears to be a direct follow-up to the…
Movie Reviews… The “new” Tomb Raider (Movie Review) 9 Sep 20189 Sep 2018 Okay, I finally got around to watching the new Tomb Raider film adaption from Warner Bros. I sadly missed my opportunity to see the film in theatres and had to…
Movie Reviews… Rampage Review 20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018 Unfortunately I missed my chance to see the new Tomb Raider movie but luckily I didn't miss my chance to catch the latest Video-Game Film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.…
Movie Reviews… Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review 18 Dec 201721 Dec 2017 The Last Jedi follows three plotlines. Rey, having discovered Luke Skywalker at the end of the previous film is trying desperately to learn the ways of the force from him…