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Movie Curiosities: Metal Lords
April 14, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Bless my friends and connections in the Portland film and theatre community for alerting me to another movie shot in my fair city. Alas, most of my friends and acquaintances in Metal Lords are relegated to bit parts or uncredited background appearances. To my surprise, this is the first time in years I’ve seen a film or TV show that was shot in Portland and had nothing to do with Dana Millican. The film’s loss, really. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Everything Everywhere All at Once
April 10, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as “Daniels”, are the filmmaking team that brought us Swiss Army Man back in 2016. The film was immediately praised and accepted as such a quirky and endearing arthouse favorite that it’s frankly disappointing they haven’t made another film in the past six years. A couple of music videos here, a TV episode there, and Scheinert took on some solo feature project called The Death of Dick Long, but that’s about it. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
April 10, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Wow, what a fluke this was. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Morbius
April 8, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
This movie should not exist. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
April 6, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Only a few days ago, I was complaining about how there wasn’t much of anything up for review, so I went with a coming-of-age dreamlike piece about a young man obsessed with space travel. And here I am reviewing a totally different coming-of-age dreamlike piece about a young man obsessed with space travel, only this one’s instantly available on Netflix and came with a much better response from most film critics. So let’s see what we’ve got, shall we? Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Gagarine
April 3, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Sweet gods above, this is a bad moment for cinema. Just when the studios feel comfortable enough coming out with new films in the wake of The Batman, everyone inexplicably makes way for a tentpole release that everybody knew was doomed for the shitpile two years ago. (Yes, I’m eventually getting around it, but not for opening weekend.) Hell, even the recent streaming releases that I can find — Black Crab, Windfall, The Bubble, etc. — look underwhelming at best. (Though if there are any worthwhile streaming releases I’m missing, please leave a request in the comments.) We’d all better hope that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 turns out to be as good as advertised, or this is gonna be a long month for moviegoers. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Lost City
March 30, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The Lost City started out as the brainchild of Seth Gordon, who might’ve proceeded to write and direct the film himself if he wasn’t still in Movie Jail for Baywatch (2017). Instead, the film was written by Oren Uziel (at least partly responsible for the screenplays of The Cloverfield Paradox, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and the 2011 reboot of Mortal Kombat), alongside Dana Fox (most recently among those who can be blamed for the screenplays to Isn’t It Romantic and Cruella). Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Adam Project
March 28, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The Adam Project started out in 2012 as a spec script by T.S. Nowlin, who hadn’t even cut his teeth yet on adapting the Maze Runner trilogy (yikes) or co-writing Pacific Rim: Uprising (ouch). At some point, the screenplay was handed off to the husband/wife team of Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, previously known for Nim’s Island (oof) and the 2008 remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth (gah). Last but not least, the FOURTH credited screenwriter here is Jonathan Tropper, late of such underwhelming fizzled-out dramedies as This is Where I Leave You, Kodachrome, and Irreplaceable You (yeesh). Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Outfit
March 27, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The multiplexes are finally beginning to thaw after The Batman has been out for long enough. And of all the films on my watchlist (factoring in the streaming releases, it’s getting quite long), there was one I simply had to address before it faded out of theaters. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Deep Water
March 24, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
It’s been fascinating to watch as Hulu becomes a staging ground for the unfolding fallout of the Fox/Disney merger. The buyout left Disney with a number of films too big for DTV, not big enough to compete in multiplexes, and too adult-oriented for the Disney+ brand, so they ended up on Hulu. We’ve already seen this with Fresh and No Exit, and now we have Deep Water. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: X
March 20, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I don’t like V/H/S. I’ve been very clear on this point. I hated sitting through that film so much that it turned me away from found footage horror altogether. I hated the nauseating shaky-cam, I hated the unsympathetic characters, I hated every single story in that whole godforsaken anthology. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Fresh
March 12, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Gentle readers, I need to start this off with a great big fucking CONTENT WARNING. For the blog entry and the movie both. I seriously wish someone had told me what I was getting into with Fresh, because I was not ready for a film that dealt with sexual assault, violence against women, toxic masculinity, and freaking cannibalism to the harrowing extent that this movie did. No joke, I had to watch this two-hour film over a span of two days because of all the time I needed to step away until the nausea had passed. Read the rest of this entry →
