Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

Your mission…should you choose to accept it…is to admit that, in Real Life, Thomas Cruise Mapother III is a grinning lunatic who staunchly believes in the ‘teachings’ (haha!) of a bizarre and alarmingly sinister cult created by a second-rate science fiction author who PROBABLY created Scientology as some kind of a cheeky tax write-off before […]

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Holy Shit! Full Disclosure: I went into this with the lowest of expectations, and yet, somehow… I’ve been closely following any and all Indiana Jones news going back to the prospective Indiana Jones sequel scripts that were quietly making their rounds in the 90’s. When this last-ditch effort FINALLY went into production a couple years […]

Roadgames (1981)

Several reviews back, I was in the midst of diving into a round of Ozploitation flicks and in my research of notable titles, Roadgames kept coming up. So, I had it earmarked as one of the next flicks from Down Under that I’d be checking out but alas, the streaming gods conspired against me and […]

On the Beach (1959)

Well folks, it’s been a helluva while since I’ve gotten the chance to do a good and honest Book to Film Comparison but alas…that time is upon us again. Not too long ago, I was doing one of my bi-weekly thrift store wanderings and I stumbled upon a paperback copy of the 1957 science fiction […]

Bush Craft

A NEW short story by LR Forgues The forest was old, the trees tall and stately…but not as old as the craggy mountain range the hundreds of miles of untouched foliage adorned. Fall had finally descended and a chilly mist had replaced the omnipresent haze of blue wildfire smoke that drifted among the tree trunks […]

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Back in the 90’s, after years of being a comic book nerd, I finally came to embrace the wide, often freaky, world of Asian anime through The Film that indoctrinated many of us little North American geeks – Akira (1988). To this day, it’s still one of the finest of its kind. It’s one that, […]

M3GAN – Unrated (2022)

One genre that I’ve always found easily digestible is the ‘inanimate object-takes-on-murderous-human traits due to possession / curse / data corruption etc’ flick, going back to a little-remembered horror from 1987 called Dolls that scared the shit outta 13-year old me back in the day. That one stuck with me (not a great movie, but […]

Nope (2022)

Well, I’d say that’s a solid ‘3 for 3’ for writer / director / producer Jordan Peele, with the comedian-turned-filmmaker having now gifted us with his impressive 2017 feature film debut Get Out, joined two years later by a solid follow-up with 2019’s Us. I found both of those to be surprisingly effective thrillers that […]

Ambulance (2022)

I’ve said it before and I’ll undoubtedly say it again…I have a Love / Hate relationship with the films of Michael Bay. Going back to his high-concept debut with 1995’s surprisingly entertaining Bad Boys, I initially fell in love with his clearly Tony Scott (Top Gun) inspired, hyper-kinetic style. He continued to hone that visual […]

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

I remember being intrigued by this title when it first released in 2018, largely due to the fact that I do appreciate a solid, self-contained mid-budget thriller / action flick, especially those boasting solid casts. Right off the top of my shaved noggin, entries such as The Usual Suspects (1995), Identity (2003), Smokin Aces (2006), […]