We’ve reconvened the film club for Poe, poetry and The Pale Blue Eye. Was it worthy or cornea? Did it hit an (optic) nerve? (As usual, film club watches are super-spoilery.) After yet another Good Bad Film Club hiatus (it takes us eight months scrolling the streamers to decide on a movie) Liz and I… Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye Read More
H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars
All film club write-ups are very spoilery. Also don’t worry if you don’t know the difference between a crocodile and an alligator, you find out two paragraphs in. It’s nearly a year since I’ve written about a film club watch, though Liz and I have continued determinedly viewing a narrow variety of low-budget horrors. And… H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss Read More
The film club tracks Missing 411: The Hunted 3 stars
I love the outdoors — walking, jogging, being dragged along by my dog while walking or jogging — though the UK is so small I’m not sure it actually qualifies as the “great” outdoors. Not like the US, with its vast, remote woods and mountains, beautiful but sometimes dangerous. The most frightening outdoorsy thing that… The film club tracks Missing 411: The Hunted Read More
The film club is shaken and stirred by The Quake 4.5 stars
Extremely spoilery. This is a disaster film post though, so maybe even if you don’t want spoilers you should read on anyway, assuming everything will be fine, while worrying about tourists staying away. Much of the action in Nordic disaster sequel The Quake takes place in an elegant restaurant on the 34th floor of a… The film club is shaken and stirred by The Quake Read More
The film club watches Norway’s The Wave, but is it yay or no way? 4 stars
Note: film club blog posts are both reviews and accounts of zoom watches, so are extremely spoilery. Don’t read if you’re a fan of chin-scratching ambiguity, that’s what I’m saying. Disaster films take our favourite movie metaphors and make them real, and that’s taken to its glorious (if deadly) extreme in The Wave, where a… The film club watches Norway’s The Wave, but is it yay or no way? Read More
Scorchio! The film club watches Skyfire 3 stars
I’m telling you now that as all my movie club reviews are, this is very spoilery, so chill. If Skyfire was a person it would be a young Tom Cruise: short, exciting, and very, very hot. This was the Good-Bad Film Club’s first watch since before Christmas. Instead I’ve been watching good films about terrible… Scorchio! The film club watches Skyfire Read More
Pot holes or plot holes? The film club caves and watches Sanctum 3 stars
Warning: I’m going to spoiler not only Sanctum (2011) but also The Descent (UK version only!) so that’s two spoilers for the price of one. I know, I spoil you. Sanctum isn’t top notch claustrophobic caving (probably partly because we weren’t watching it in the original 3D). Though it often looks beautiful, and it’s quite… Pot holes or plot holes? The film club caves and watches Sanctum Read More
The film club watches Dog Soldiers – winalot or pedigree dumb? 5 stars
After re-watching Dog Soldiers it took me five days to venture back into the woods to walk the dog, and I made sure Film Club Liz came with me. I’ll not be hiking through the Scottish Highlands any time soon though, which joins the Yorkshire Moors and deserted late-night London Underground stations on my werewolf… The film club watches Dog Soldiers – winalot or pedigree dumb? Read More
Epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel 4 stars
This is by no means the first fantasy starring Gerard Butler that I’ve enjoyed but I think it’s the first I’ve seen on screen. My Good-Bad Film Club companion Liz adores Game of Thrones, and Beowulf & Grendel – which came out in 2005 – is surely its precursor. I’m always behind the zeitgeist and… Epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel Read More
‘Allo ‘Allo: the film club watches Overlord… 4 stars
Sorry but if you set a WW2 film in a French village or town, Brits of a certain age will see every blond Nazi officer as Herr Flick. Naming the film’s hero Boyce also means that unfortunately many of us will immediately think BOYCIE! (hehehehehehehe). Which is a shame as Boyce is a topnotch hero:… ‘Allo ‘Allo: the film club watches Overlord… Read More
You’re having a lava! The Good-Bad Film Club watches Dante’s Peak 3 stars
This week on the Good-Bad Film Club we watched Dante’s Peak, which – despite me seeing it in the cinema when it came out 23 years ago – I have always believed to be called Volcano. It turns out there was a Volcano film, which came out shortly after. Similar films often come in pairs:… You’re having a lava! The Good-Bad Film Club watches Dante’s Peak Read More
Law Abiding Citizen gives us the People’s Choice Hannibal Lecter 3 stars
Killing with abandon, he doesn’t even leave his prison cell. And while all Clyde Shelton munches is the scenery and a decent steak, he does then murder his cell-mate with the bone. It was another Good-Bad Film Club evening last night, and I’ll not lie, this one – chosen purely for Gerard Butler – was… Law Abiding Citizen gives us the People’s Choice Hannibal Lecter Read More