Exploring: The “Ancient Future” of A.I.
Thanks to “The Gates” and “The Jobs,” we have a little A.I. in our life. But before Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and fired up the first Web server and browser at CERN in 1991. Before Benoit Mandelbrot discovered fractal geometry and unleashed the M-Set on the world and made your selfie-self a reality. Before Robert […]
Exploring: Italian Giallo Films of the 1960s through the 1970s
Editor’s Note: As this exploring feature wraps up our “Giallo Week” of reviews, we’re unpacking a lot of links of our past reviews within our analysis of the genre, as well as a listing of links for our week’s reviews. So bookmark this feature and return at your leisure for your one-stop source for Giallo […]
Ape Week: Revenge from Planet Ape: The Spanish “Planet of the Apes” (1978)
“You know, the Templars’ burnt, eyeless and noseless, sunken-skulled faces sure do look like monkeys,” cigar chomps the cheesy American film distributor. “That gives me an idea. . . .” “Legend has it, almost 3,000 years ago, a simian civilization of super-intelligent apes struggled with man to gain control of this planet. In the end, […]
Exploring (Before “Star Wars”): The Russian Antecedents of 2001: A Space Odyssey
While Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey used Arthur C. Clark’s 1951 short story The Sentinel as its launch point, Kubrick’s true inspirations for his game changing science fiction classic were the pioneering Russian/Eastern Bloc science fiction films released during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Most of these films were adapted directly or inspired […]
Exploring: 50 Gen-X Grunge Films of the Alt-Rock ‘90s
Editor’s Note: Thank you to our readers for making this one of our most-visited posts. Bookmark it for your one-stop reference for grunge flicks. We’ve since newly reviewed (and hyperlinked) several of the films referenced within each of the reviews to discover. Before Nirvana, the Spin Doctors, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pearl Jam, […]
Rocktober Blood (1984): A Second Look: Remembering Nigel Benjamin 1954-2019
Editor’s Update: April 2022: Now it makes sense! The reason for the recent flurry of hits on this review is the official streaming release of Rocktober Blood on Shudder and its simultaneous, limited-edition VHS reissue by Culture Shock Releasing. Grazie, to the fine folks at Lo-Fi Video for the heads up. There’s also an online […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Ugetsu (1953) and Kwaidan (1964)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things (two-fers allowed) My Dr. Jekyll promised that my celluloid Mr. Hyde would not spree a master thesis portmanteau for this Scarecrow Challenge with an embarrassing display of my obsessions for the British anthology oeuvre of Milton Subtosky and Freddie Francis. And my nostalgia […]
‘Revenge of the Nerds’ is a Rape Liturgy
I normally write for blog called Grindhouse theology, which deals almost exclusively with ‘the intersection of Christian faith and horror Cinema’. On paper, Revenge of the Nerds is a comedy, which means I’m outside my comfort zone. It is a comedy, I guess, maybe in the Twilight Zone, or some other dystopian nightmare world where affluent young men […]
Kim Basinger: Professional idiocy, circa 1987 and 1988
In 1987, Kim Basinger appeared in Blake Edwards’ Blind Date with Bruce Willis. In 1988, she appeared in Richard Benjamin’s My Stepmother is an Alien with Dan Aykroyd. In both films, she plays nearly the same role: a woman so devastatingly gorgeous, she decimates the brains of weak-willed men everywhere before settling for a man who obviously […]
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