Tonight we watched Jennifer's Body. Directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody, both women. I write that because the film has been considered as a flop that was too sex-forward. However, this is the partnership that brought the world Juno, a film that is loved (though I've never seen it). While it was marketed towards straight men, they ( Read more... )

Tonight we tackled The Lighthouse (2019). It is directed by Robert Eggers who also directed The Witch (2015). Witch is now considered a modern classic. It's set in the 1630s with all the history and culture of that time behind it. With no jump scares, it's a slow-burner that takes its time to develop characters and relationships. You need to know ( Read more... )

Today I watched two movies to get me caught up. First up was The First Purge. It was directed by Gerard McMurray which is a departure since all three of the first movies were directed by James DeMonaco. However, DeMonaco wrote them all. It's a good installment with a curious anti-hero in the local drug lord who takes on the NFFA. This is the ( Read more... )

I've been following Jenny Jinya on Facebook for about a year. I saw her The Loving Reaper comics, and they broke my heart. I've been watching her posts since then. When she said she was making a chapbook of “Black Cats” and “Good Boy,” I knew I had to get a copy (even better that mine is signed). It's a wonderful time to live in where we can ( Read more... )

Tonight we watched Host. It's a newer breed of horror movie. We've seen a few others in the same vein such as Unfriended. Directed by Rob Savage, it shows what happens when a Zoom seance goes off the rails. While not as disturbing as the other movies we've seen, it has a good creep factor. I genuinely had tingle feet, and that's always the ( Read more... )

Today we tackled Maniac (2012). We wanted to see this because it stars Elijah Wood as a mentally unstable mannequin restorer. He goes out and murders women and scalps them as a trophy. While we are presented with a backstory that's pretty sad, it's hard to explain his appalling behavior. I recommend you not try to eat while watching it. Bonus, it's ( Read more... )

I'm fascinated by graveyards and ossuaries. So when I saw there as a movie about going into the French catacombs, I was excited. As Above, So Below is directed by John Erick Dowde, who also directed Quarantine. We follow Scarlett (Perdita Weeks) as she continues her father's work of finding the Philosopher's Stone. She meets up with a Parisian ( Read more... )

We missed Saturday, so Sunday we watched House 2. This is an old favorite, but Gregg had never seen any of them. So we watched House first, and we followed up with this one for a laugh. It has nothing to do with the first movie, other than a house that is bonkers. Jesse (Arye Gross) moves into a family home. He digs up his great-great ( Read more... )

Friday night is always a crap shoot depending on how tired Gregg is from work. He picked Rent-a-Pal as our movie. I didn't know anything about this, but I jumped on immediately because it has Wil Wheaton in it. A man is taking care of his mother who has dementia. Since it's the 80s, he's using a video dating service. While there, he seems a VHS in ( Read more... )

We're starting this year with the last movie in a trilogy. Wait, what? Gregg and I have been watching the Hell House LLC movies. We decided to finish the last movie, Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, tonight to usher in the month of movies. The franchise was always intended to be a trilogy, and there appears to be a TV series as well in the works. ( Read more... )