This One Bites! Teeth
This One Bites! Teeth In the film American Beauty, Kevin Spacey’s character is sharing a joint and a laugh with his young neighbour. “Heh…” he manages to get out between stoned giggles: “Did you ever see that movie where the body is walking around carrying its own head and then the head goes down on that babe?” The reply is immediate: Re-Animator. Yes, it was director Stuart Gordon’s wonderful, tasteless splatterfest...
My Huckleberry Friend: The Way the Crow Flies
My Huckleberry Friend: The Way the Crow Flies Here is an extraordinary book that at first seemed a million miles from the kind of thing that I find myself drawn to; yet it has turned out to be one of two books recently which are far outside my normal interests, yet have hooked me and made me not just give a lot of time to them, but in which I’ve unexpectedly found myself investing a lot emotionally. [The other is a book...
Grabbers (2012)
Grabbers (2012) The closest that I could come to a ‘mission statement’ with this blog is that I really enjoy movies and as a result I try to avoid reviewing those that I don’t like. [‘Mission Statement’: ghastly idea isn’t it? That has to be an American original, surely?] My attitude has always been that no one sets out to make a bad one and I hate to slag off anybody’s hard work. But I don’t mind so much with Grabbers...
The Dead Don’t Dream: Warm Bodies (2013)
The Dead Don’t Dream: Warm Bodies (2013) Since Zack Snyder’s terrific reboot of George A. Romero’s zombie films with Dawn of the Dead, the living dead ones seem to have really caught hold on the imagination of a certain type of filmgoer. I’ve a feeling that this is something that might come to an end when World War Z with Brad Pitt is released shortly. I could be wrong, but I’ve had a bad feeling about this one since seeing the...
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