Tag: movies
From Beauty and the Beast to Trainspotting 2: Is 2017 any good?
I’ve written before on CURNBLOG about why movies released at the beginning of the calendar year are generally wretched. I’d include a link here, but you all can get off your asses (figuratively; actually you only have to type a few words into a Google search) and find it for yourselves. Sorry, I’m just in…
Q: The Winged Serpent – 35 Years of the Genre Redefining Classic Creature-Feature
In my previous article “That Infamous B-Flick: The Giant Claw” I talked about what a huge fan of creature-features I am, how they were part of the beginning of my cinephilia, and that while I had seen quite a number of them in my childhood, The Giant Claw (1957) was one that I never got…
Puppet The Critic Show – Inception 1:Minute Review
CURNBLOG is proud to welcome the latest member of our team, Puppet! Puppet has been a filmmaker for the last thirteen years, and has a passion for approaching online film criticism from a filmmaker’s perspective. More than this, his reviews are informed by a deep knowledge of film theory. In fact, he’s quite possibly the…
Cinema Soupçons in ‘WarGames’ and ‘North by Northwest’
I can’t think of two movies that are more alike than WarGames (1983) and North by Northwest (1959). Okay, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. All right: a vast exaggeration. But let’s look at the similarities between them. They’re both thrillers. They both deal tangentially with the Cold War. They both feature characters on…
The President’s Analyst: The 50th anniversary of a prescient classic
“We, the undersigned mental health professionals, believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of the President of the United States.” That is how a recent Change.org petition began and it gathered close to 30,000 signatures in a few weeks.…