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Though we aim to cover a bit of everything you’ll find we are especially active reviewing Horror, Film Noir and Science Fiction. Every October we feature a horror movie review every day without fail. The rest of the year we try and put something up at least once a week. Unique to this site you will also find some fun movie pitches, enhanced with the inclusion of AI art, and coming soon, some fun movie pitches generated by collaboration with AI. This is a blog about movies… with a twist!
This is also the home of the most comprehensive Blade Runner deep dive on the internet along with an exploration of the Terminator Franchise and where it can go in the future. There is always something interesting to read about. Let’s indulge in escapism!
Latest Deep Dives and Movie Pitches
- Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) – A Film Maker On Trial
- Terminator – The Skynet Trilogy (Pitch) – Part 3.
- Terminator – The Skynet Trilogy (Pitch) – Part 2.
- Movie Pitch: Terminator – The Skynet Trilogy – Part 1.
- The Terminator: Dead or Misunderstood – Part Two
- The Terminator: Dead or Misunderstood? – Part One
- Blade Runner (1982) – Deep Dive – Part III: A Replicant By Any Other Name.
- Blade Runner (1982) – Deep Dive – Part II: The World of Blade Runner
- Blade Runner (1982) – Deep Dive – Part I: Plot & Characters.
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A Note On My Review Scores
I tend to rate movies lower than most casual reviewers and many critics. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that means I don’t like them, I just feel it is more optimistic to leave space at the top for those few movies that are true masterpieces, instead of having 75% of your scoring options varying degrees of awful. Casual viewers tend to put an average movie around 7/10. For me that is 5/10. The most important thing to bare in mind with me is a six is a good score!
One to Three Stars = These are the truly dreadful movies. Likely they have no redeeming features and if they do, their negatives are overwhelming. I rarely rate this low, since you can usually tell a movie will be this bad before you watch it.
Four Stars = Bellow average. Not worth bothering with, but not truly dreadful. Either failed to do anything good or just had negatives to overwhelm the positive. Usually these are movies that looked decent on the surface, but fail to deliver.
Five Stars = Average or slightly above average movie. Reasonable way to spend an evening but not worth going out of your way for or spending money to see. You’ll see a lot of these.
Six Stars = A good movie that I recommend as worth watching. Probably not one for your physical media collection, but worth a trip to the cinema. You’ll see a lot of these too.
Seven Stars = An excellent movie. Worth going out of your way for and worth buying on physical media. This is highest score you’ll see from me on a regular basis.
Eight Stars = A timeless classic (and to be timeless it needs to age well). These are exceptionally rare.
Nine Stars = A true masterpiece of cinema. Very few films can make that claim, so don’t hold your breath for me to give out this score!
Ten Stars = In my view, a perfect movie. It’s possible I’ll never give a film ten stars, but that is largely the point. There should always be the potential for a higher score and a better movie.
Latest Reviews
- Nosferatu (2024)
Since Robert Eggers latest movie “Nosferatu” was released in the UK January 1st 2025, for me it is the first movie of this year. To many of my readers though it will have been the last movie of 2024 since it arrived Christmas day for the US and a few other territories. Sadly that means … - Christmas Horror Triple Bill
I’ve been threatening to review some Christmas horrors for a few years and now is the time. Given horrors obsession with holiday themes it’s not a huge surprise to learn there are an awful lot of Christmas horror films. It’s probably even a less of a surprise that most of them are also awful. There … - Megalopolis (2024)
So another movie I didn’t intend to write about this year is Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project “Megalopolis”. There was so little interest in this movie that even a 1 in 3 walkout rate barely got the attention of the media and many critics skipped reviewing the film because they really couldn’t figure out what … - Review Roundup – December 2024
It’s been a while since I did a review roundup. But I’m back with three movies from this year to check out. These are basically family/kids movies. Seems appropriate for the holiday. All three of these movies will entertain kids and may entertain adults too. First up we have that other Ryan Reynolds movie that … - Review Roundup – Film Noir
November is over, but I have three more Film Noirs I watched this month to review. That means you get another triple bill review round up! These reviews don’t get as many views as the horrors or recent releases, but that’s not why I do them. I do them because Film Noir is great and …
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