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AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR THEME: AlIEN HORROR SUMMER
We take a break from David Fincher month to bring you An Unreliable Narrator summer theme: Alien Horror. Starting with this week's release of "A Quiet Place: Day One" through to the August release of "Alien: Romulus", we will countdown the top 25 alien horror films of all time. Brace yourself because this summer, no one can hear you scream...
REVIEWS & POSTS
Jul 31, 20243 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 14: PROMETHEUS (2012) MOVIE REVIEW
Ridley Scott returns to the franchise that put him on the map…but this film is less concerned with Xenomorph mayhem, exploring deep...
Jul 31, 20242 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 15: 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016) MOVIE REVIEW
The stealth spiritual sequel to the found-footage alien invasion thriller takes the franchise in new but still terrifying direction,...
Jul 31, 20243 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 16: SIGNS (2002) MOVIE REVIEW
M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 summer thriller is a meditation on faith, as well as being a pretty scary and intimate alien invasion thriller....
Jul 26, 20247 min read
ALT OSCARS: 2004
This is a big year for Hollywood sequels, with some of the best follow-ups ever produced. They didn’t rely on the old formulas, evolving...
Jul 26, 20242 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 17 SPUTNIK (2020) MOVIE REVIEW
In this entry, a Russian cosmonaut survives a horrible reentry to Earth in 1983 Russia, but he did not come back alone… by Nate Lemann...
Jul 26, 20242 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 18: CLOVERFIELD (2008) MOVIE REVIEW
The next entry on our list is the film that put Matt Reeves, Drew Goddard, and a young cast on the map in the found-footage, Kaiju attack...
Jul 26, 20242 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 19: PREDATORS (2010) MOVIE REVIEW
Our next entry is the third film in the “Predator” franchise and is a severely underrated action-horror thriller led by an imposing...
Jul 25, 20244 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 20: NOPE (2022) MOVIE REVIEW
We’ve now entered our unadulterated classics phase of our countdown, where each movie has a legitimate reason to be number one on our...
Jul 24, 20244 min read
TWISTERS (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
For as fun as this movie feels on the surface, it is built on such a flimsy foundation that the whole film teeters on the edge of...
Jul 23, 20246 min read
LISTS: WESTERN EPICS
In honor of "Horizon: An American Saga - Ch. 1", we countdown the top Westerns with epic scale and sweeping production. Jump on your...
Jul 22, 20243 min read
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - CH. 1 (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
Kevin Costner's big swing is at times unwieldy juggling of various tales from the American frontier, but also an immensely competent and...
Jul 22, 20242 min read
IN A VIOLENT NATURE (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
An ASMR version of a cabin in the woods slasher that takes the unique perspective of the killer, to both interesting and dull effect. by...
Jul 22, 20242 min read
BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
The fourth entry of the action comedy franchise keeps up the momentum of this surprisingly sturdy series, finding new ways to evolve the...
Jul 22, 20242 min read
THE EXORCISM (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
Russell Crowe goes for seconds in the "Procession Horror" genre, this time playing a washed-up actor, looking to make his big comeback in...
Jul 22, 20242 min read
MAXXXINE (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
Ti West & Mia Goth's "X" trilogy comes to a bloody close with a fun ode to taboo '80s slashers and Giallo mystery cinema. by Nate Lemann...
Jul 18, 20242 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 21: UNDER THE SKIN (2014) MOVIE REVIEW
This 2014 alien horror oddity is unlike anything else on our list; if only it stayed in that rarified existential air instead of looking...
Jul 18, 20243 min read
ALIEN HORROR SUMMER - NO. 22: LIFE (2017) MOVIE REVIEW
This international starer from director Daniel Espinosa feels a bit like “Alien”-light but still has enough style and creative creature...
Jul 17, 20245 min read
ALT OSCARS: 2003
For this week's entry, we look at 2003, the official crowning Oscar for Peter Jackson's epic trilogy and the birth of some of this...
Jul 15, 20246 min read
LISTS: SERIAL KILLER MOVIES
In honor of the release of "Longlegs", journey on over to the dark side with us as we countdown the top 25 serial killer films in cinema...
Jul 15, 20243 min read
LONGLEGS (2024) MOVIE REVIEW
Osgood Perkins has crafted the feel-bad-movie of the summer, a serial killer procedural so evil and innately twisted that it will leave...
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List of the Week: Serial Killer Movies (See Post for Full List)
PEPE SILVIA MOVIE THEORY CORNER
Are Clive Owen and Eric Bana kind of the same person? If you told me Clive Owen was the Hulk, I’d kind of think “that sounds right…?” Or tell me Eric Bana was in Inside Man and I’d say “It was ‘pick a generic white dude to cover his face the whole time while Denzel goes off' flick”
List of the Week: Western Epics (See Post for Full List)
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