Categorie: filmblog
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A is for Alien
An ABC Book (A little golden book) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743127/a-is-for-alien-an-abc-book-20th-century-studios-by-charles-gould-illustrated-by-joey-chou/ Review: A few weeks ago I was scrolling through TikTok and saw something fun (and especially funny) and even though I’m a very grown up man, I wanted it purely for the fun factor and a bit of nostalgic sentiment. A is for Alien is a children’s…
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Friday the 13th Movie Marathon: Friday the 13th (1980) – rewatch
Review: Warning ‼️ this review may ànd will contain spoilers! So SPOILER ‼️ Let’s begin with addressing the ‘Ki ki ki ma ma ma’ sound that made this movie so iconic and so recognisable, still today! Manfredini’s soundtrack for this movie is still one of the creepier horror soundtracks of the eighties! This being said……
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Saw Movie Marathon: Saw X (2023)
Review: Warning!!!‼️ This review contains spoilers for the Saw franchise! Do not read if you haven’t seen all eight other movies (I know, there are nine, but this one doesn’t contain any spoilers for Spiral, as that’s more of a spinoff) Saw X is a daring project that brings new life to the Saw-series by…
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Movie Marathon: Thanksgiving (2023)
Review: “There will be no Leftovers!” After a disastrous ‘Black Friday’ sale in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts killing some of the townfolks and wounding others, Thanksgiving celebrations will never be the same again. Although the state of Massachusetts lives for this holiday! And now they will die for it as well! One year later,…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Creepshow 1 (1982)
Review: Based upon a graphic novel Stephen King wrote that was illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, who would later return to do illustrations for King’s novel ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’, King would work together to adapt the graphic novel into this anthology movie, directed by George A. Romero. In total there are five stories in this…
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August 2024
August was a weird month… once in a blue moon these appear… I suffered from a reading slump at the start of the month. This resulted in starting five books, never finding the right pace or the right book that clicked… a trip to Helsinki made it a bit harder to read as well…. And…
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Movie Marathon: A single Man (2009)
Review: In December 2020 I finally read the novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man. It was a novel about love, death, longing and melancholy… also about getting older! I adored every letter, every phrase… and that ending just wrung my heart out… Even though Tom Ford, yes thé Tom Ford of the glasses and…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: The shining (1980)
Review: As movie adaptations go, especially Stephen King adaptations, this is one has been very much talked about in the past 44 years, since its release in 1980! Stephen King hated it, the late Shelley Duvall (who recently passed away) was bullied by Kubrick while filming and almost left… The movie had its issues… and…
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Movie Marathon: All of us Strangers (2023)
Review: All of us Strangers was a movie that was recommended by everyone online and by that my interest was peaked to have a go at it, even though I’ve seen people on TikTok crying over it. So I knew this was going to be a sad movie. But I didn’t expect it to be…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (2023)
Review: The latest in the Mission: Impossible series, again with Tom Cruise as the main character Ethan Hunt and some recurring characters such as Ilsa Faust, Luther and Benji and 27 years after the first M:I movie Henry Czerny is back as well, playing his role as Kittridge again. Newcomers are Pom Klementieff as a…
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