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American Pie (1999)
American Pie wasn’t the first sex comedy to up the raunch and gross-out levels before Tom Green pushed them to their apex (nadir?) in Freddy Got Fingered. But it’s a milestone in teen sex comedies, sliding them a little further out of the Stone Age – as represented by entries in the ‘80s – to…
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Poor Things (2023)
I just saw Poor Things and it was fantastic. In a sense, it’s like the “adults only” version of Barbie (2023) and gives a lot more of what I hoped for from that film: a fundamentally feminist narrative woven subtly within a fantasy tale. Both films are about a woman living a relatively charmed life…
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The Boy and the Heron (2024)
I just saw The Boy and the Heron and it was great. A fantasy drama out of Japan, it’s set mostly around the bombing of Tokyo during the 1940s and follows a young man whose mother dies and whose father then takes him to the countryside to set up home with a new wife. But…
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Night Swim (2024)
Well, I saw my first movie of 2024, Night Swim, and it was a dud, though not at least a painful one. It was a typical January horror film, though of the mediocre school as opposed to outright schlock. It tells a Stephen King-esque tale of a haunted swimming pool in the new backyard of…
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Napoleon (2023)
I just saw Napoleon and now I’m being chased by men with butterfly nets. Also, the film was good. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I was going to based on its trailer, with its “moody” pop and corny graphics (“LOVER… TYRANT…”). The actual…
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Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1972)
I just saw Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, the last of the local art centre’s choices for Classic Horror Nights, and it was a jewel, so to speak. Based loosely on The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, most famous for Dracula, it utilises a lot of the elements of British and Hammer…
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
I just saw Godzilla Minus One and it was good. Easily the best kaiju movie that I’ve seen in a long time; mostly the ones I’ve seen have been American takes on the genre. The one I grew up with was the 1998 Roland Emmerich disaster porno, Godzilla, which I mainly remember for all the…
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Black Christmas (1974)
Produced in 1974, four years before Halloween would provide a new zenith for the genre (and six before the decade began that would come to mark its nadir, preceding Scream’s much needed revitalisation in 1996), Black Christmas is a Canadian slasher directed by Bob Clark and featuring probably most famously Margot Kidder (Lois Lane in Superman ‘78) and John…
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Scarface (1983)
A classic of its genre, Scarface typifies ‘80s materialism in much the same way that the 1932 movie of the same name that it was based on symbolised the Prohibition era. Back then it was booze, now it’s cocaine. Then it was jazz and the Charleston, now it’s big hair and electro-pop. Like all great…
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The Uncanny (1977)
I just saw 1977’s The Uncanny, an anthology horror film starring Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance just prior to his role as Dr Loomis in Halloween, at my local art centre’s Classic Horror Nights and it was fantastic. Your mileage with it may vary, depending on your taste for camp and tolerance of cheese in…
I Just Saw
Telling you about movies I just saw
