“Godzilla Minus One” was already one of the best Godzilla movies, for the way it used the kaiju movie template to tell a story that was essentially a sweeping melodrama about surviving wars and other catastrophes. The announcement that it was going to be released in a black-and-white version was tantalizing, and the result is … Read more
Fans are getting excited about Apocalypse Z 2 and wondering if the sequel has a release date yet and if it is coming out. Apocalypse Z is a Spanish horror drama film that dives into a world where a global disease outbreak turns people into savage creatures. It follows a man trying to reunite with … Read more
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End is in the headlines. The Spanish thriller film chronicles the journey of Manel and his cat Lúculo to survive a zombie apocalypse. With the film now available to stream, fans are buzzing with curiosity regarding its climax, especially the fate of the loyal pet. So, what happened to … Read more
With the recent release of the second The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse, fans are wondering if Season 3 is on the cards. The 2023 anime series is a sequel to another popular hit The Seven Deadly Sins. It follows the adventures of a young boy named Percival who is a part … Read more
It’s impossible to talk about New Queer Cinema without talking about Gregg Araki, whose low-fi, erotic, playfully surreal style still feels one of a kind. He is perhaps most known for his ‘Teen Apocalypse’ trilogy: “Totally F**ked Up” (1993), “The Doom Generation” (1995) and “Nowhere” (1997). Each of these films stars James Duval in a … Read more
The Telluride Film Festival historically incorporates a fair number of documentary features and shorts alongside the main attraction, narrative features. This year, the documentary programming was thoughtfully political, and the selections thematically aligned well with the narrative features. This permitted my personal programming to have its own common thread and for synchronicities to shine. The … Read more
In the months leading up to the year 2000, many people by panic that the world would come to an end — not because of a Biblical prophecy or some sort of supernatural calamity, but because computers had been programmed with two digits for the year not four, meaning that when 1999 became 2000, computers … Read more
Any creative person lucky enough to have a lifelong partner knows how that person fills many roles: support staff, cheerleader, wise counsel, the keeper of dark secrets. But “Hearts of Darkness,” which credits her as “Documentary Footage Directed by Eleanor Coppola,” brought those secrets out into the light. Francis’ suicidal thoughts are on display, as … Read more
Masters of the low-budget genre movie The Asylum is back with its own spin (sort of) on the alien invasion movie with Alien Apocalypse. Alien Swarm An unmanned spaceship returns to Earth carrying samples from Proxima b in the Alpha Centauri system. As scientists study the specimens, they discover the alien elements are alive! Soon, … Read more
Netflix loves its apocalyptic thrillers. It feels like they have practically cornered the market on bleak science fiction thrillers about the end of the world and/or the one or two attractive movie stars left after the end of the world. I just went to look on Netflix, and was honestly surprised that there wasn’t an entire subsection of … Read more