Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2023 I've always been an advocate for the Ebert adage "It's not what a movie's about, but how it's about it." I still believe it, and on paper what The Last Voyage of the Demeter is about is pretty cool: adapting the chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula about the wreck... Continue Reading →
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2023 It's not fair to classify Amicus as the poor man's Hammer, but watching The House That Dripped Blood - a misleading title as there is nary a drop of blood to be found in this anthology film - but despite some game performances from Hammer regulars Christopher Lee and... Continue Reading →
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2023 Consider this a public service. I am going to waste as few words as possible on the dreck that is Dracula 3000, a quickie straight to cable cash grab that is exactly what you think it is: Dracula in space. The actual Dracula, he with the goth cape and... Continue Reading →
Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2023 Sometimes you sit down to watch a film and you just can't get into it. Maybe you've had a bad day, maybe the tone of the piece rubs raw against whatever it is you're looking for and you turn away. Sometimes you forget that film altogether. Sometimes, though, a... Continue Reading →
Being Film #3 for Hooptober 2023 Man, there is just something about Dario Argento. Excepting The Five Days (only because I haven't seen it) his run of films from 1970's The Bird With the Crystal Plumage up to 1996's The Stendhal Syndrome (I'm giving a soft pass to 93's Trauma because I barely remember it)... Continue Reading →
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2023 Tone is everything. So even if Sea Fever, the debut film from Neasa Hardiman isn't particularly scary, it holds its tone throughout a solid tale that on the surface may be about a parasitic life form that wreaks havoc on a down and out fishing vessel off the coast... Continue Reading →
Being Film #1 for Hooptober 2023 Sometimes suspending your disbelief can be a chore, but sometimes - if the tone is just ridiculous enough - it can be a delight. There was a lot to suspend in Night of the Comet, a sci-fi horror comedy that's more "Valley Girl survives the Apocalypse" than anything else,... Continue Reading →
I cannot believe a year has passed, and here we are again. It's the 10th year of the Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, and for the third time we'll be covering it over here on Cinema Dual. That means for the next 45 days myself and Mr. Dan Morris will be exploding your eyeballs with copious... Continue Reading →
What's in a list, anyway? It's something I've struggled with throughout my time as an online writer. But when you're considering a set list of, as the BFI so brazenly puts it, the greatest films of all time, it becomes apparent that a list - any list - must encompass both a sense of inflexibility... Continue Reading →
It's been a cool 10 months since I last did a Criterion Catch-up. It's not that I haven't been watching my collection, it's just that...well, I was doing other things, like May's Vinyl Challenge over at Consuming the Tangible and of course the recent Hooptober marathon right here at Cinema Dual. And in that time... Continue Reading →
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