Baddie – Blind ambition Lesson – Hitchhiking is dangerous, and business is cruel. Australiaaaaa. I love you. I love you and your fantastic horror scene. I get so weirdly excited when the opening credits start and an Australian production company scrolls across. I had no idea that 100 Bloody Acres was Australian by the description, so instead…
Let’s get one thing clear right out the gate: Aquaman is a national treasure. A legion of hack comedians, unenlightened comic book fans, and people who only half remember the character from Superfriends have made Arthur Curry, King of the Sea, a pop culture punch-line for much longer than the character deserves. For these reasons,…
I have now seen every Best Picture nominee this year, and can rest easy knowing that Rooster Illusion has reviews of all eight of them posted and ready for our devoted and adoring audience. With that behind me, I can get back to my one true passion: watching movies that are actually good. That’s not…
Baddie – History, once again. Lesson – Sometimes the map is a warning. This week I decided to check out the quietly-lurking Norwegian film Ragnarok. Based on the description, it could have gone a few ways, but in any event it was a horror movie about history and archaeology, so, sign me up. It ended up being a really…
This week I continue to punish myself with biopics. They’re a tricky business, and can be incredibly good, but I feel like the mentality pulsating through Hollywood these past few years and on to the coming few is something along the lines of, “Everyone should have a movie made about them. Why are we wasting…
Baddie – Possession, I guess. Lesson – Alzheimer’s is pretty scary, but Alzheimer’s + Demon is scarier. I’ve been disappointed with possession movies for a long time. The Conjuring, for example, popular with many, failed to capture my attention after a promising first half. The Quiet Ones was super disappointing. The Taking of Deborah Logan has been making noise…
How about those Oscar nominations, eh? There seems to be a whole lot of blandly inspiration “true story” movies this year. Of course, we could hang around counting snubs until, as the kids say, the cows come home, or we could focus on just one, because despite this misleading intro, this article concerns something totally…
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