Retro Review: Spoiling The Village Troll of ‘The Village’ (2006)
My recent reviews of M. Night Shyamalan’s Eastrail 177 Trilogy sparked a discussion of the controversial director’s other films on and off this blog. One movie in his…
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Retro Review: Glass (2019) Part 3 of the ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’
The following is a review of the third movie in a trilogy of films, all of which have twist endings; all by a…
Retro Review: Split (2016) Part 2 of the ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’
“Spoiler-free M. Night Shyamalan review” is an oxymoron. Read on at your own risk if you haven’t yet seen Split. The first…
Retro Review: Unbreakable (2000) Part 1 of the ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’
They say that when you’ve got it, you’ve got it. Then, at some point, you lose it. That would have been an…
The Feature-Length 2D Animated Film is a Dying Art
Mamoru Oshii, the venerable director of animated film classics Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor, explains why the feature-length 2D animated film is becoming a dying art. “Making…
The True Definition of “Fake Geek” Revealed
If anyone still doubts that: a) The Hollywood studios, big publishers, and record labels who are busily destroying your beloved childhood brands are not…
Retro Review: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
The recent post I did on beloved 80s horror-comedy Gremlins hinted that a review of the sequel was forthcoming, so here it is. First off,…
Unconventional Christmas Movie Review: Gremlins (1984)
A common malady among aspiring artists is to get hung up on an established set of rules. That’s not to deny that any rules…
Forensic Geekery: Looking at Pop Culture History Post the High 90’s
Spend enough time on this blog, and you’ll soon discover that contextualizing the generations, especially in regard to pop culture, gets a lot of page space.…
Retro Review: Batman Returns (1992) a Self-Indulgent, Subversive Feminist Allegory
Tim Burton’s first Batman movie was a classic black swan event. Like Star Wars, it was a genre film by a fledgling director whose quirky vision inspired…