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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
- 80’s Horror Double Bill
Well, it’s Halloween and my final October Challenge review. Next year I will instead be enjoying myself at Universal Horror Nights in Florida and after five years of doing 31-35 reviews over October I feel I have well and truly defeated the challenge. I started out doing the reviews on facebook, but four years worth … - Sinister (2012)
In 2020, there was a study called “Science of Scare Project” designed to determined the scariest horror movie of all time. The study was deeply flawed, but it’s still interesting. By monitoring heart rate and beat variance they determined the movie “Sinister” as the winner. They’ve repeated it a few times, with Sinister gaining the … - Project Metalbeast (1995)
Tonight’s horror is another from the “Werewolf list”. That is the movies I decided to track down and watch after my disappointment with “Wolf Man” (2025). Eight movies in and I finally had the bad taste out of my mouth. But the list was longer than that, so I saved the rest up for this … - Maniac (1980)We’re back to the world of 80’s horror again. This is 1980’s “Maniac” from director William Lustig, who would go on to create the Maniac Cop franchise in the late 80’s. The story is by Joe Spinell who also stars as the titular character. Spinell is mostly known as an actor. Cinematography is by Robert …
- Stoker (2013)
“Stoker” (2013) is a movie that’s been on my watch list for a long time. This is director Park Chan-wook’s English language debut. This is the director of “Old Boy” (2003), a deeply disturbing, yet compelling revenge thriller that takes taboo to the extreme. This movie has a number of unique elements to it’s production. …
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