By Vijay Varman
Some of you may have noticed that when writing up these seemingly obligatory end-of-year big screen roundups, I’ve never titled any of my collections as “best.” Mostly that’s because, being … Continue reading My Top Four Most Notable Films of 2019
For a look at the previous two shorts, Alien: Containment and Alien: Specimen, click here. Synopsis: When a missing space trucker (Tanner Rittenhouse) is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker … Continue reading The Short View – Alien: Night Shift (2019) / Alien: Ore (2019)
I love this. Say what you will about the now defunct 20th Century Fox and their past treatment of the Alien franchise; but the way they’ve chosen to celebrate the … Continue reading The Short View – Alien: Containment (2019) / Alien: Specimen (2019)
Over the past couple of years there have been an innumerable number of storylines that could be said to have been abandoned too soon. The space-faring TV show Firefly or the ever … Continue reading Game Review: Alien: Blackout (2019) – An Engaging and Spine-Tingling Mobile Followup [iOS]
Apologies folks. While I am a little late in posting my list of movies for 2018, that’s pretty much what comes about when this entire blogging thing is technically a … Continue reading My Top 10 Most Notable Films of 2018
Very minor spoilers for Inception and Lost in Translation. Thank god we’ve come a long way from the era of Passion of the Christ and Dogma. While Killing God, the … Continue reading Review: Killing God (2018) – An Odd Night With The Almighty [Arrow Video Frightfest 2018]
The nature of cinema is that cinematic trends rise and fall. Some, like the western, last for decades. And others, like the young adult book adaptations, only last for a … Continue reading Review: One Cut of the Dead (2018) – Hands Down The Funniest Film Of The Year [Arrow Video Frightfest 2018]
Now in its 18th year, the people behind the Frightfest Film Festival can easily hold their heads up high as the creators of one of the foremost film festivals in … Continue reading Short Scares At The 2018 Arrow Video Frightfest Film Festival
The nature of being an aspiring screenwriter is that you have to read a lot of scripts. A LOT of scripts. Most of them tend to be older movies (or … Continue reading Review: A Quiet Place (2018) – Silence Makes For Cinematic Gold
Say what you will about M. Night Shyamalan, but in spite of the triple consecutive disaster that was Lady In The Water, The Happening and The Last Airbender; the man who … Continue reading Review: The Visit (2015) – Creepy Grandparents For The Win!
I recently had a peruse of my list of most anticipated films of 2017. Though a couple on that list had been pushed to 2018, I was still somewhat surprised to … Continue reading Review: The Belko Experiment (2017) – Human Nature At Its Darkest
Who remembers when director M. Night Shyamalan was the laughing stock of Hollywood? And I actually mean that literally. Because back in the summer of 2010, someone recorded footage of … Continue reading Review: Devil (2010) – A Claustrophobic Ride With Death
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