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Movie Curiosities: Bunny!!
March 29, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Here’s one that came right out of nowhere. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Undertone
March 24, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Undertone was made and marketed as a prestige horror film set in the nascent world of documentary podcasts. Everything about the promotion for this movie was focused on the sound design. Tempted though I was to wait for the DVD so I could watch this with headphones, the timing worked out for a relatively small and sparsely attended screening. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Project Hail Mary
March 23, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Gotta be honest, I was wary about Project Hail Mary. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Slanted
March 16, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
A couple years ago, we got a little film called The Substance. It was a feminist work of body horror, made and marketed as a scathing satire of show business, patriarchal beauty standards, etc. There were numerous reasons why that movie took the world by storm, foremost among them that it was really goddamn good. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Bride!
March 10, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The Bride of Frankenstein did not appear in the original Mary Shelley text. Frankenstein starts work on a female mate for his original creature, but scraps it partway through, and that’s all we ever got. Until The Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, easily one of the all-time greatest film sequels. The Bride herself is only one of a great many iconic Frankenstein moments that didn’t come from the original book or the original film, but came from the cinematic sequel. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Hoppers
March 9, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Hoppers was made and marketed as an environmental film about an everyman protagonist who gets mind-swapped into an inhuman body, the better to communicate with native wildlife and lead an uprising against the transparently evil corporate land developers. The comparisons with Avatar are self-evident. In fact, Pixar was smart enough to get ahead of the comparisons and lampshade the similarities in the trailer. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: “Wuthering Heights” (2026)
February 24, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’ve never actually read “Wuthering Heights”, but that doesn’t feel like it should be an issue. At this point, the Emily Bronte book is such a foundational classic, its influence is felt in every romantic drama made since. “Heathcliff” is a household name, a shorthand for the stoic gothic hunk. Should the female lead follow through and marry the rich asshole or throw it all away and choose true love with the poor chivalrous dreamboat? That question has been the foundation of countless romantic dramas, from “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” all the way to goddamn Fackham Hall. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Crime 101
February 23, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Crime 101 comes to us from writer/director/producer Bart Layton, who came up as a documentary filmmaker. In fact, this appears to be his first attempt at a narrative feature. With a crime thriller that’s got something like a dozen moving parts. That was a bold swing, and I’m not entirely sure it worked out. Buckle up, folks. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: GOAT
February 17, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
GOAT is an underdog story about anthropomorphic animals playing basketball. And it’s about a goat, as a play on the Greatest Of All Time acronym. On paper, there’s no way this should be anything remarkable. But after the Spider-Verse films and K-Pop Demon Hunters, I know better than to question Sony Pictures Animation. So let’s take a closer look, shall we? Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die
February 16, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Hey, Gore Verbinski? Fuck you too. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Dracula (2025)
February 9, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Wow. Between the awards season slump and Super Bowl weekend, we got hit hard with a drought for new cinematic releases. When The Strangers: Chapter 3 is the headliner, that’s pretty fucking dire. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Iron Lung / Send Help
February 2, 2026 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
This weekend brings us two different blood-soaked horror movies with anti-capitalist themes, minimal casts, and claustrophobic settings. Buckle up, gentle readers — it’s time for a double feature! Read the rest of this entry →
