Oh man, where do I begin with this? While I don't think I'm a "fan" of J.J. Abrams, I can say that between Alias, Lost (though Damon Lindelof was behind that more than J.J.), and both Stars (Trek and Wars), I've seen enough of his work to level some sort of educated opinion. Super 8 …
Category: Films
Two Movies About Ghosts
Don't ask me why I decided to pin a bunch of ghost stories to my Kanopy watch list, but it seems like I've got horror on my mind. Maybe it's because of the way the world is going to complete shit this year and I need to see something that feeds my current pain or …
Into the Forest
Sometime in the near future, society is devastated by a cataclysmic event, one that causes a massive power outage throughout the country. Living in this society are Nell, Eva, and their father, who prior to the event moved to a house in the middle of a secluded forest. Eva (played by Evan Rachel Wood) is …
The End of the World Cult
I've always been fascinated by cults. No, I'm not joining one. Calm down. So I've always been fascinated by cults and recently fell down a rabbit hole of podcasts about them (a review to come later, but I will tell you that Generation Cult, IndoctriNation, and the Waco season of American Scandal are really great), …
Bettie Page Reveals All!
In my quest to find free entertainment via my public library, I discovered the movie streaming service called Kanopy, which seems to have its fair share of really great foreign and independent films as well as documentaries. Or at least that seems to be what I've been gravitating toward when I have added things to …
Blood Sisters
So New Jersey has a pretty good track record when it comes to independent, low-budget movies and when I saw someone on social media link to this very random low budget horror flick from 1987 released by Cannon, I was intrigued. I mean, I love a good shitty horror movie and Cannon=boobs, so ... good, …
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sitting somewhere in a mental queue and eventually knocked off of my Hulu list, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a movie that I was always interested in watching but at the same time didn't exactly want to see because of my job as a high school teacher. I guess that's why it took me four …
Fright Night Part II
Oh man, was this one a tough one to find. It doesn't seem to exist in very many places on streaming (at least not in a way that I don't have to pay extra for it) and even Netflix doesn't have it available on DVD (it's in my "saved" list). And while I am not …
Zombieland
I can't tell you how long this one has sat in my Netflix DVD queue. Okay, I can say it probably has been a decade, because the film came out in 2009 and I probably put it on the list when it hit DVD in 2010. Not only that, I've had the DVD in my …
The Witch
It's 1630. A family is exiled from its village in colonial Massachusetts. They set out into the frontier and find a place to build a home and a farm. As time passes, things are tough but they seem to survive. Then, one day, the family's eldest child, Thomasin, is playing peekaboo with her baby brother, …
The Uncollecting 