When their yacht sinks, a group of Welsh teenagers seek refuge on an abandoned island hotel, only to find the hotel is stuck in a time loop where life and death become one and the same. … More Bloody New Year (1987)
When I say “The Seventies was the best decade for crime films,” your answer should be “No shit, Sherlock.” The French Connection, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, Night Moves, The Gauntlet, pretty much anything with Michael Caine… speaking of whom, was in a classic of crime cinematography on the border year … More The Italian Job (1969)
In lieu of a real review or anything, here’s ten of the best things I found about the new Middle Earth-based The One Ring. Mirkwood! You want to know a brilliant idea? Start off your three-game Middle Earth RPG line in between The Hobbit and LOTR, in one of the most detailed areas of the … More Ten Great Things about The One Ring RPG
I picked up The One Ring a few months ago, back when I had some Amazon gift cards, and have been paging through it since; very impressed so far, so here are some initial impressions. Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, but I’ve been busy fixing computers and stuff. Besides, not like … More [The One Ring] Initial Impressions
Since I managed to get ahead of myself on the 15 Days of Horror thing, time to do something different. Since I just read Fritz Leiber’s novel Conjure Wife, I thought I’d do a tie-in between blogs and popped on Netflix to see which of the three movies based on the book were on streaming. The … More Horror Movie Review – Burn, Witch, Burn! (Night of the Eagle)
I think it says a lot about me when the first fifteen horror movies I can come up with include a lot of hybrids—a couple of thriller crime/horror hybrids, a bunch of SF/horror hybrids, and a pair of comedy/horror hybrids. Like this one. “You’ve got red on you.” Shaun of the Dead isn’t a true … More 15 Days of Horror – Shaun of the Dead
Logic is my Virgin Sacrifice to Reality 