Monthly Archives: September 2024

Episode 184 – Speak No Evil (2024)

September 30, 2024New Release, Remake, Serial Killer, Theatrical ReleaseAisling Franciosi, Eden Lake, James McAvoy, James Watkins, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, The Ring (2002), The Vanishing (1988), The Vanishing (1993), The Woman in Black (2012)shockdoctors

This remake of the 2022 Danish film suffers from a stultifying fidelity to the original – except in two major respects, where there has been a decided downgrade. A waste of a very strong cast.

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Episode 183 – The Front Room

September 22, 2024Body Horror, Horror Comedy, New Release, Theatrical Release“Gramma”, A24 Horror, Beau is Afraid, Brandy Norwood, Dogma, Kathryn Hunter, Max Eggers, Robert Eggers, Salo, Sam Eggers, The House of the Devil, The Woman in Black (1989)shockdoctors

The directorial debut of Robert Eggers’ younger brothers Max and Sam is an uneasy mishmash of influences, on top of being a tedious scatological assault on the senses.

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Episode 182 – AfrAId

September 15, 2024New Release, Theatrical Release2001: A Space Odyssey, Chris Weitz, Colossus: The Forbin Project, David Dastmalchian, I Robot, John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Keith Carradine, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Terminatorshockdoctors

While the Shock Doctors share most of Chris Weitz’s feelings about AI and other facets of modernity, the actual film he’s assembled is a muddled hodgepodge of grievances that never coheres.

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Episode 181 – Alien: Romulus

September 1, 2024Aliens, Body Horror, Creature Feature, New Release, Sequel, Theatrical ReleaseAlien, Alien 3, Aliens, Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Dead Space, Evil Dead (2013), Fede Alvarez, Ian Holm, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Prometheus, Resident Evilshockdoctors

Alien: Romulus is not without its merits – set design and visual style in particular – but it suffers from an excess of fanservice callbacks, and the AI revenant of Ian Holm was a serious misstep.

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