The horror genre was a major part of my life for decades but this year I have decided to take a step back, especially in what I read, because horror and I need a little bit time apart. For reasons…
Category: Discussion
On why having shrew-wives and shitty moms does not equate adding women to your horror, basically. A rant in brief…
The Long Walk does an astounding job of bringing the source material to life and both honoring the original but also updating it in dozens of minor ways to show how the story of young men walking to their death is still a poignant parable. Great cast. Great choices. It is perhaps only the ending that ultimately fails to convey the horror.
The most damning praise I can offer for Jurassic World: Rebirth is that I did not hate it. It does an ok job of continuing the world building from previous films and gets quite a few things right. Those things are often buried and entangled in a lot of errors that give a sense of wild mix of ideas being pressed together. The resulting “soup” is sometimes strange and confusing in its ingredients. It is nearly better to think of it as two separate movies that just happened to be playing at the same time.