This is not necessarily what one might expect when hearing the words ‘Halloween movie’; I am however willing to bend the rules of categorization given how well this film sets the unnerving tone for its plot. Furthermore, this is yet another movie that this year to its thirtieth anniversary, so a little appreciation is a…
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Helsing van Belmont
A bit of a strange one for the movie of the month column, but it is the 20th year anniversary of Van Helsing and it is an adequate way to ease in to the upcoming Spooktober. Van Helsing is a 2004 action horror(-ish) movie directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale and Richard…
Czech it out
So recently I was in Prague for a wonderful conference on comic books and film studies where I had the pleasure to geek out about the liminal encounters between words and pictures; I presented a couple of ideas about Firefly, a wholesome TV series that unfortunately was cancelled (mostly because of corporate interests) but that…
George of the (Jungle) Dragon
George and the Dragon is a 2004 movie directed by Tom Reeve, starring James Purefoy, Piper Perabo and Patrick Swayze with the guest appearance of Michael Clarke Duncan and Val Kilmer (which awkwardly is uncredited). At its core, it is a light-hearted adventure: a princess that is taught to have been kidnapped by a dragon,…
Around the meme in 80 worlds
From your ‘bobr kurwas’ to your ‘hawk tuahs’ and now to your “it was staged”, more and more the global information and news, trivial or significant, are being conveyed through memes. We are truly living in the Harambe timeline, or as I would say to a normal human being in a casual conversation, “we are…
The last of the samurai
From west to east – or from east to west depending on your location – we have covered cowboys, now it is high time to cover the samurai. And what better movie than Seven Samurai? It is an immortal classic from the Japanese cinematographic industry, directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1954 and starring Toshiro Mifune…
The Spaghetti, the Western and the Poncho
Since the weather is finally getting warmer, it’s high time (and apparently high noon) to put a western on the movie-of-the-month column. In fact, to make it even more special, let’s go the full mile and put in a full trio, the so called Dollar Trilogy, undoubtedly Sergio Leone’s masterpiece. We are hence considering A…
Brütal Legends of Metal
So, hear me out, it’s been quite a while since Brütal Legend first launched back in 2009 and going back to play it, I can safely say that it still rocks just like 15 years ago. It may not be a masterpiece and might have one or two flaws here and there, but by the…
Loose and Happy Feet
It’s been quite a while since I haven’t covered a musical for this column, and since Footloose reached it’s 40th year anniversary, it would seem like an opportune moment. This might be bending the term ‘musical’, since there is no actual singing on behalf of the actors’ part, but it is considered such, so we’re…
The Nirvana of gaming anime
This series goes out for all the gamers out there that are also into anime. Shangri-La Frontier recently finished airing the first season and I must admit it was, well, pretty good for its genre. For anyone who wants to comment on the fact that it feels like a Sword Art Online wannabe, I will…