Tag: 1.5 stars

  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife by Jonny Numb

    Ghostbusters: Afterlife – an Impossible Weight “Lots of fan services [sic] but that’s what we asked for.” – IMDb “Top Review” of Ghostbusters: Afterlife   I kept wondering when our collective nostalgia machine – a metaphysical database of shared memories and beloved IPs – would reach peak capacity, causing a rift in the space-time continuum…

  • Lucky by Jonny Numb

    Lucky: Something Blurry In horror or thrillers, putting the viewer ahead of the characters never ends well. Good horror ejects the audience from the perception of the film itself as horror, and instead immerses us in character and atmosphere, to the point where twists and turns come across with genuine surprise. In other words: it’s…

  • Anna and the Apocalypse by Jonny Numb

    Anna and the Apocalypse: A Fresh Spin on the Horror Musical? When it comes to teen-angst, coming-of-age comedy-dramas, I’m always ready and willing to be manipulated into a nostalgic mindset. I’m still a sucker for The Breakfast Club. I love Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. In the horror realm, Life After Beth and Night of the…

  • The Nun by Billy Crash

      The Nun Treads on Tired Ground Corin Hardy, director of the ho-hum The Hallow, brings us another safe and formulaic commercial horror with The Nun. Part of the equally impotent Conjuring universe developed in part by James Wan, who co-wrote The Nun, the story supplies the origin story for the nun behind the painting in The…

  • Crash Reports: My 1,700th Horror – and More

    I had tried to pick something that would cap another horror viewing milestone, and Matthias Hoene’s COCKNEYS VS. ZOMBIES (UK, 2012) seemed like the right choice. The film featured the amazing Alan Ford (who stole every scene) and veteran lovely, Honor Blackman even made an appearance. But in this tale, where cockney kids rob a…