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Join us as for old and new movie reviews, deep dives into some classics, pop culture analysis and creative movie pitches. If you are fed up with industry shills and websites more obsessed with identity politics than quality story telling, then this site is for you.
Though we aim to cover a bit of everything you’ll find we are especially active reviewing Horror, Film Noir and Science Fiction. 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
- 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.
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.
Latest Reviews
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Legacy Sequels are a difficult nut to crack. The success rate is under 50%, however when the director and most of the cast returns the odds increase significantly. Today I’m reviewing legacy sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”. Let’s see if this will wind up a winner or a loser! - Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a superhero movie. The truth is most of them aren’t that interesting to me these days. However, this team up is too appealing to resist. If the box office is any indication, I’m not alone in feeling that. This is a truly unique situation for a movie. It’s … - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
The only movie franchise that can get away with having “Of the” in the title twice, returned once more this year with “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”. The previous trilogy of films (Rise/Dawn/War) effectively told a complete story over the three films documenting how the world of Man could turn into the world … - Review Roundup – June 2024 – The Speed Run!
This month I’m doing a speed run. I’ve got four movies and two documentaries for you. It’s a lot to cover so I am giving each two paragraphs only. I’ll have more content for you in July including some major reviews. For now though, I’m looking at four low budget horror movies: “Project Dorothy”, “Sting”, … - Review Roundup – May 2024
This month we’ve got a bit of a mixed bag to sort through. We have one horror film in “Abigail“, previously known as “Abducting Abigail” (As listed in my January preview for this year); We have an over the top action comedy in “Boy Kills World“; and the most indie of indie movies, the story …
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