Category Archives: Period Piece

Episode 106 – Nightmare Alley



Mild pacing issues and Dr. Ritter’s impenetrable motives prevent Nightmare Alley from being a slam-dunk, but it’s still a very good time.

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Episode 105 – Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City



Your Masters of Microphoning meander through another Johannes Roberts misfire, albeit one that appears to make some fanboys very excited.

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Episode 103 – Last Night in Soho



Last Night in Soho wastes an imperfect but engaging opening stretch by dissolving into a featureless morass of shadow men and a climax that is bone-deep bad.

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Episode 90 – The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It



The Warrens’ third (fourth?) entry in the James Wan Expanded Universe in the weakest yet, completely lacking in scares and drowning in jargon.

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Episode 79 – In Fabric



Peter Strickland’s latest is an appropriately bizarre giallo homage, complete with a score that might as well have been written by Goblin.

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Episode 74 – Blood Quantum



The deft noir flourishes and political subtext of Jeff Barnaby’s zombie thriller complement, rather than detract from, the delightfully gooshy practical effects and post-apolcalyptic chaos.

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Episode 59 – The Keep



Michael Mann’s follow-up to Thief is a beautiful but incomprehensible hodgepodge – incomprehensible both on a plot basis, and because you can’t hear what the fuck anyone is saying.

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Episode 58 – Bad Hair



Justin Simien’s tale of a demonic weave has some tonal inconsistencies and juggles a variety of somewhat incompatible influences, but the end result is generally a good time.

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Episode 51 – Sputnik



All space parasite movies must by necessity stand in the shadow of Alien, but this oppressive Russian period piece takes a good crack at it all the same.

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Episode 41 – Gretel & Hansel



Oz Perkins takes a quantum leap forward with a gorgeously lensed and delightfully atmospheric adaptation of perhaps the most well-known of Grimms’ Fairy Tales.

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