The Suicide Theory movie review: to die or not to die
Guilt, grief, and forgiveness get wrapped up in a Twilight Zone-ish shroud of fate in this downbeat trifle of a crime drama.
Twilight Zone
Escape from Tomorrow review: Mickey Mouse horror
Whatever the technical intrigue of a film shot guerilla-style at Disney World, the would-be surreal midlife crisis that ended up onscreen doesn’t work… at all.
Locker 13 review: no fresh hell
Nothing here is terribly haunting, but at least someone is trying to make something like a horror movie these days that isn’t about gore and torture.
Doctor Who thing: Doctor Who vs Doctor Who in Sci-Fi Madness
Think March Madness (that’s American basketball for the rest of the world), only with science fiction shows pitted against one another.
Safe Haven (review)
Not just another tale about how the people whose photos come with the picture frames fell in love. This time it’s a thriller, too!
Tatsumi (review)
Singapore’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the upcoming Oscars is an animated Japanese-language ode to legendary gekiga artist Yoshiro Tatsumi…
retro ad: 1950s Coke Christmas commercial
Damn, I’m gonna have holiday sugarplum nightmares about that scary Santa. I bet he inspired Rod Serling’s creepy Twilight Zone ventriloquist dummy. *shudder*
question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
a few thoughts on the new season of ‘Eureka’
Damn you, Eureka. I had been enjoying Syfy’s Eureka since its beginning a few years ago. It has been perfect Friday-night TV: smart but not overly demanding, the kind of show that didn’t insult my intelligence but allowed me to relax with it. Nice, likeable characters (for the most part, aside from one or two … more…
