Sucking blood This is totally insane, and probably nothing like any movie-review you ever read, or are ever going to read, but here goes. If my name was Morbius, I probably too would drink human blood. With that sort of name, I’d might as well call myself Dracula and move into a castle in Transylvania.…

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that typically features a society dominated by high-tech or artificial intelligence or where humans have integrated technology into their bodies. Essentially, it’s a mix of the future and Blade Runner. The Matrix, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Surrogates, and even parts of The Terminator all count as cyberpunk…

“Black Adam” – Hit puree! As of November 1, 2022, James Gunn and Peter Safran will take the reins of DC Studios (formerly DC Films). And not a moment too soon. The DCEU is widely considered a disaster and currently exists as the punchline on Marvel Studio’s doormat. Including Black Adam, there are twelve movies…

If you’re a seething fantasist, a deeply immature guy incubating warped daydreams about making ’em all pay, then The Hidden is right up your dark little alley. Here you can vicariously indulge your most hedonistic, destructive impulses. You know, taking whatever the hell you want, beating the shit out of whoever objects, smashing stuff up,…

I often argue movies are made-up nonsense that have no effect on me. Like a lot of things I say, I’m probably on dodgy ground. Consider Spinal Tap. Good grief, the first watch was a minor revelation. Up until its chastening, palate-cleansing introduction in my mid-twenties, heavy metal could do little wrong. That’s why I…

It is not news to anyone that brick and mortar everything has been on the ropes for years. The covid pandemic was just another gut punch to retail and nothing was hit much harder than the cinema movie houses. Multi-screened theaters are going the way of the drive-in movie and the shopping mall. The competition…

I have three gods in my pantheon: Jim, Jimi and Herman. (That is, for those of you that are not American: Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Herman Brood.) All pantheons all need a degree of lesser gods, so there are: Stephen King, Freddy Mercury, Bobby Fischer, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Elon Musk [EDITOR’S NOTE: What is wrong…