The Shallows (2016)
Ripley of the Blood-Tides: The Shallows (2016) In the 40-odd years since Spielberg unleashed the classic Jaws on the world, shark attack films have become passé to the point of being totally redundant. I think the last one I stumbled across was the recent Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre. That was the one that cast a group of porn actresses before giving them the bizarre directing order that they should all keep their clothes...
Suicide Squad (2016)
Margot’s Movie Jettisons the Joker: Suicide Squad (2016) This third event of the DC Extended Universe has had a lot of pressure on it after the lacklustre response to Man of Steel, followed by the outright, frankly bizarre, hostility towards the flawed but underrated Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. For me, writer-director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad contained quite a few surprises, mainly because I was unfamiliar with the...
Gardens of Fear The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 6 pt. II
Gardens of Fear The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 6 Edited by Paul Herman Part Two These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore Weird Tales for August of 1934 was home to the tenth published episode in the life of Conan of Cimmeria, Howard’s most commercially successful series to date. And since I’m that anal-retentive kind of obsessive who likes nice, neat little lists,...
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