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Year End 2017

Posted on January 3, 2018December 10, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

Him (Javier Bardem) tries to convince Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) to appreciate his rioting fans in Darren Aronofsky's mother! (2017)

Some comments about the past year’s DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Evil and dead

Posted on February 1, 2017December 10, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

Alice (Milla Jovovich) trying to outrun the zombie horde in Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

Paul W.S. Anderson wraps up his 15-year zombie apocalypse with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), one of the best episodes in the series, while Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan (2016) scales the zombie heights in style.

Late summer viewing 2014, part one

Posted on October 15, 2014February 12, 2025 by Kenneth George Godwin

Horror, action, mindless violence and exploitation: summer viewing has involved a lot of switching off my brain and watching undemanding genre movies.

DVD Review: Laddaland (2011)

Posted on September 5, 2012December 10, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

Laddaland (2011) is a recent Thai entry in the Asian ghost genre. Interestingly, it also seems to draw on a western strain of horror, what you might call “real-estate anxiety” as exemplified by Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror, even to some degree the Paranormal Activity series. Here the fear is rooted more in economic and status […]

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