The Killer (2023)

I distinctly remember the first time I came across the name ‘David Fincher’. It was early in 1992 and the first one-sheet for Alien 3 had turned up outside one of the local theatres in the small sea-side town I grew up in. Counting its predecessor, 1986’s Aliens, as my favorite movie ever (and to […]

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The Creator (2023)

Gareth Edwards. By now, many movie geeks the world over are familiar with this writer / director’s name, even if it’s just by virtue of having gifted us with the ONLY Disney era Star Wars film that has ANYTHING resembling redeeming qualities. Personally, I REALLY enjoyed 2016’s Rogue One and think it deserves to stand […]

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Mad God (2021)

For anyone familiar with the science fiction offerings of the 80’s and 90’s, the name Phil Tippett should not be unknown. The man is a giant within the special effects community and has contributed many notable and classic effects sequences, going all the way back to the original Star Wars – A New Hope (1977). […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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