Even coming off the huge trifecta of back-to-back hits Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh seemed an unlikely choice to helm a big science fiction film in 2002. The director had spent most of his earlier career making small, arty dramas, and frankly has never come across as the kind of guy who’d… Read More There Are No Answers, Only Choices | Solaris (2002)
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Whatever pretense I may once have put up about not showing my sons R-rated movies for our Film After 11 podcast went out the window a while ago. For an episode we recorded on Halloween, I fully gave up and let Thomas watch Army of Darkness, the third movie in Sam Raimi’s gorefest Evil Dead… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Army of Darkness (1992)
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I come to the 2007 Spanish horror thriller [REC] very late, long after having seen the American remake, called Quarantine, beforehand. The fact that Quarantine received middling reviews and was quickly forgotten, while [REC] remains well-regarded and spawned a franchise of sequels, is an interesting case study of how even a close copy can fail… Read More Tape Every Fucking Thing | [REC] (2007) Blu-ray
My son Joseph says he doesn’t like scary movies. Naturally, as a kind and loving father, I feel it’s important to subject him to George Romero’s original zombie classic Night of the Living Dead. How well did that go over? That’s what we discuss in the latest episode of the Film After 11 podcast. Despite… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Night of the Living Dead (1968)
As I sit here after watching A Quiet Place, struggling to write an introductory paragraph that will find an angle into the film, it strikes me as rather ironic, or perhaps just fitting, that a movie with almost no dialogue would leave me with little to say about it. I don’t mean to imply that… Read More Stay Silent, Stay Alive | A Quiet Place (2018) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray
In an act of great parenting, I thought it would be a swell idea to instill a fear of spiders into my son Joseph by making him watch the 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia. Did it work? As you’ll see in this week’s episode of the Film After 11 podcast, not really. Did I actually expect… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Arachnophobia (1990)
I hadn’t watched Jackie Chan’s “Police Story Trilogy” in so long that I’d forgotten the franchise also had a fourth entry (First Strike), a Michelle Yeoh spinoff (Supercop 2), and at least two movies described as reboots but in which Chan plays unrelated characters who also happen to be police. During most of that time… Read More What We Need Is a Super Cop! | Police Story III (1992) 4K Ultra HD
I’m genuinely excited for the latest episode of the Film After 11 podcast, because this week I get to introduce my son Thomas to the cinematic wonder that is Jackie Chan at his prime, in 1985’s Police Story. I don’t think the kid had any idea what to expect, and had never seen a real… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Jackie Chan’s Police Story (1985)
Despite its notorious last-act scene in which James Bond, legendary secret agent 007, dresses in a clown costume while once again saving the world, 1983’s Octopussy is neither the worst nor certainly not the best movie in the Bond franchise. Honestly, it’s not even the worst of the Roger Moore era. It is, however, perhaps… Read More The Tip of the Tentacle | Octopussy (1983) Blu-ray
