On the recommendation of Cataline Sergius over at his new blog [https://darkherald.net/2019/02/11/cataline-highly-recommends-the-death-of-stalin-a-comedy-of-terrors/] , I tried out "Death of Stalin". Glad I did. Not hysterically fun, it is an exceedingly black and dark company that transforms into straight-up dark near the end, and yet has a number of moments worth a chuckle as the actors and script manage to both play it utterly straight, yet slightly ridiculous. I'm also somewhat shocked -…
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In a recent discussion of modern media I noted that while there was a fair bit of anime that I did like, I had gotten a lot pickier about what was actually worthwhile and what was just trash. In and of itself, so what. I followed that up though by noting that while there was a degree to which some old movies fell to childhood nostalgia disorder - they were fonder in my memory than the actual quality deserved - and others were better movies than I recalled, the number that were just outright ugl…
Superversive plays virtue-signalling Oscar bingo [http://www.superversivesf.com/2019/01/22/why-no-one-cares-about-the-oscars-2019/] so that I don't have to: > I don’t think anyone cares about documentaries … (RGB? Zion? I can’t even find an IMDB page on some of these). Foreign language films … Poland did something about the Cold War, which probably slipped in because no one in Hollywood was looking. For the log of God Almighty — FIFTEEN musical score nominations? Fifteen… talk about overkill.…
In our sadly simplified age we tend to either have overtly, almost desperately, happy or overtly grimdark (and these are sold as "intelligent", and "real"), and I know far too many who see a dark tale of virtue and hope and cannot see the light at the end, as if it's been trained out. I ended up watching the movie version of Solomon Kane [https://infogalactic.com/info/Solomon_Kane_(film)] due to the recommendation of Razorfist (and if you dig up the youtube video, the recommended book of collec…
Daddy Warpig, at both Geek Gab [https://youtu.be/EBtaMwsHF_E], and at Castalia [http://www.castaliahouse.com/michael-myers-the-scooby-doo-scary-man/], reviewed the new Halloween release. He brings up mostly the same set of strengths and weaknesses in the movie in both, though in the (I presume) latter Castalia review, he comes across a bit less happy about the movie. Now, I'm a huge fan of his reviews, and usually find them spot on, but in this case, I have to differ with him. First - one of t…