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100 Words or Less – Dead Birds (2004)
Title – Dead Birds
Released – 2004
Director – Alex Turner
Starring – Henry Thomas, Nicki Aycox, Isaiah Washington, Michael Shannon.
Review – After a bloody robbery, a group of Confederate deserters hole up in an abandoned plantation, waiting to split their gold. And it doesn’t let up from there. Dead Birds does a lot with a little thanks to a reliable cast of actors and great cinematography,…
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100 Words or Less – Sympathy for the Devil (2023)
Title – Sympathy for the Devil
Released – 2023
Director – Yuval Adler
Starring – Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman
Review – A driver is stuck with a terrifying passenger across one neon-soaked night on the Las Vegas outskirts. Thanks to a surprisingly tight and clever script and an all-out Cage performance (after a few acclaimed but subdued roles), Sympathy for the Devil is far more engaging…
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100 Words or Less – Hardwired (2009)
Title – Hardwired
Released – 2009
Director – Ernie Barbarash
Starring – Cuba Gooding Jr., Val Kilmer, Michael Ironside, Tatiana Maslany
Review – Hardwired is a cheap sci-fi film with clever ideas and a sprinkle of low-grade cyberpunk. Gooding Jr.’s Luke Gibson wakes from a coma following an accident to find he’s been implanted with a microchip. With no insurance, he’s saddled with intrusive…
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Inside No. 9 – The Top Nine Episodes
Over 49 episodes, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have made the definitive anthology show. One episode might be the scariest thing you’ve ever seen, the next might be kitchen sink drama, and the next might see a flatulent and German Steve Pemberton evacuating his bowels into a shoebox. Which makes ranking them difficult.
The show has a few constants. Every episode takes place in one…
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#Dana Scully#David Duchovny#Fox Mulder#Gillian Anderson#Horror#Science Fiction#The Truth is Out There
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Mycreativeramblings' Alternate Academy Awards 2023
The Oscars this year were surprisingly great. However, I feel there were a few omissions...
The 95th Academy Awards are upon us. Last night, on March 12th, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) celebrated the exciting year of cinema that was 2022. And for the first time in a number of years, there seemed to be genuine excitement for this year’s event. Last year, the 94th Academy Awards saw a mixed bag of films from 2021 nominated,…
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#Aftersun#Austin Butler#Banshees of Inisherin#Brendan Fraser#Everything Everywhere All At Once#Michelle Yeoh#Nic Cage#Oscars#Paul Mescal#Prey
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The X-Files (Seasons 1-4) The 5 Best Episodes
Check out my list of the top 5 episodes of seasons 1-4 of the X-Files. I think there may be a few surprises in there (although I can reveal now that there are no episodes featuring demonic kittens)...
“The truth will save you, Scully. I think it’ll save both of us.”
The X-Files is one of most daring and unashamedly insane shows on mainstream TV of the last 50 years. I started watching it months ago and I am slowly but surely making my way through the entire thing. I know this is slow going, and it’s not that I don’t want to binge it, but I am enjoying the show so much that I don’t want it to…
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#Dana Scully#David Duchovny#Fox Mulder#Gillian Anderson#Horror#Science Fiction#The Truth is Out There
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Doctor Who - 'The Power of the Doctor' Review
My quick review of 'The Power of the Doctor'. I loved it, and thought it avoided a lot of the mistakes of the Chibnall era.
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Like the rest of the Chibnall era, ‘The Power of the Doctor’ was messy. But I’m very happy to say that it didn’t really matter at all. Aside from a typically long-winded plot, Doctor Who fans were gifted a ninety-minute extravaganza that celebrated everything that makes the show great. There were the obligatory fanservice moments, but ultimately, I can’t remember the last time I…
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#BBC#Chris Chibnall#David Tennant#Doctor Who#Jodie Whittaker#Mandip Gill#Ncuti Gatwa#The Power of the Doctor
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All V/H/S Segments Ranked - Worst to Best
Before the release of V/H/S/99, I've tried to rank all 16 segments. It was tricky! But only one was ever going to come out on top...
With the V/H/S franchise, producer Brad Miska aimed to combine two mainstays of the horror genre: found footage and the anthology format. The hook here is that every grainy segment is written and directed by different people – often the biggest names in horror. And it’s a wild ride, with each film offering a mix of scares and gore. It’s tailor-made to be watched at one in the morning with…
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#Adam Wingard#Gareth Evans#Horror#Simon Barrett#Timo Tjahjanto#V/H/S#V/H/S/2#V/H/S/94#V/H/S/99#V/H/S: Viral
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The Lord of the RINGS: The Rings of Power - First impressions / Episodes 1 and 2 Review
The Lord of the RINGS: The Rings of Power – First impressions / Episodes 1 and 2 Review
Firstly, thank you to Jack and Tom for letting me host this review here.
People have asked about my opinions of this show, so I thought I would spend the time to properly articulate my thoughts. There is a lot to like, and a lot to dislike.
***SPOILER WARNING*** for everything under ‘The Likes’. Everything under there will spoil the first two episodes of the show, and will reference events from…
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'Batman - One Bad Day: The Riddler' - Review
‘Batman – One Bad Day: The Riddler’ – Review
Back in 1988 there was a little comic released called The Killing Joke, written by Alan Moore. It redefined the character of The Joker and has gone on to become one of DC’s all-time biggest comics, never going out of print.
Within the pages of that story, The Joker says:
“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one…
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What I'm Reading - 'From Hell' by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
What I’m Reading – ‘From Hell’ by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
“I am Sir William Withey Gull. How may I help you?”
Probably the best graphic novel of all time. The detail in it, the research that must have been necessary, is mind boggling. It’s not just about Jack the Ripper; it takes a much, much wider view and considers how that year of violence way back at the turn of the 18th century might have informed the century to come. It’s simultaneously difficult…
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Brian and Charles (2022) Review
My review of Brian and Charles, starring David Earl and directed by Jim Archer. Check it out if you can, it's a wonderful little film.
“Hello Charles. It’s lovely to meet you.”
The two stars of Brian and Charles may seem vaguely familiar to anyone with a passing interest in British comedy. David Earl has played a variation on the Brian character in a few things over the years, most recently in Ricky Gervais’s Netflix show Afterlife. Originally Earl created Brian (full name Brian Gittins) for his stand up routine years ago. This…
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100 words or less – The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
100 words or less – The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
Title – The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Released – 1988
Director – Vincent Ward
Starring – Bruce Lyons, Hamish McFarlane, Marshall Napier
Review – The Navigator, Ward’s second film after the equally-disquieting Vigil, is a surreal science-fiction film imbued with the nuclear politics of 1980’s New Zealand. It follows six Cumbrian villagers from the 1300s who miraculously dig their way to…
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100 words or less - Road games (1981)
100 words or less – Road games (1981)
Title – Road Games
Released – 1981
Director – Richard Franklin
Starring – Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis
Review – Road Games is a surprisingly effective road-thriller in the vein of Hitchcock (think Rear Window with a truck instead of a wheelchair). Similarly to Spielberg’s Duel from a decade earlier, Road Games follows a lone driver travelling a barren land (Australia’s Nullarbor Plain) who…
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#100 Words or Less#1981#Australian Cinema#Jamie Lee Curtis#Ozploitation#Richard Franklin#Stacy Keach
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They've all come to look for America - 'The Last American' by John Wagner, Alan Grant, AND Mike McMahon
They’ve all come to look for America – ‘The Last American’ by John Wagner, Alan Grant, AND Mike McMahon
“Your rank will be Apocalypse Commander. Your powers will be absolute.”
I heard about this story after Garth Ennis praised it in an interview with Brian K. Vaughn. Lo and behold, Ennis’ quote adorns the front cover: “one of the very best comic books ever published”.
And it is really something. Anti-war, anti-America, anti-religion, utterly bleak and nihilistic – this is definitely a British…
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) Review
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) Review
“Whether you like it or not, you have a gift.”
Nicolas Cage is one of the greatest actors that has ever lived. And to match this singular, legendary man, his reputation is unlike any other actor. He’s critically acclaimed and Oscar winning yet has appeared in a dearth of straight-to-VOD movies over the last decade. His money troubles were infamous but widely misunderstood, his personal…
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The Top 5 Films Based on Marvel Comics
The Top 5 Films Based on Marvel Comics
With the imminent release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and following the multiversal hi-jinks of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the lines between the canon MCU films and the other ‘legacy’ films are becoming more and more blurred. In No Way Home, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men appeared alongside Tom Holland’s MCU incarnation, with their respective villains in tow, and…
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#Doctor Strange#Hugh Jackman#Marvel#MCU#Multiverse#Patrick Stewart#Robert Downey Jr.#Sam Raimi#Tobey Maguire
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