The Boys just keeps being more and more fun, with sentient dicks and so much insanity that I had to make a long list (Oh wait, I did!)
Pets United (2020) – These Dogs Can Go To Hell
Released: 11th September
Seen: 21st September
Sometimes a film gives me a very easy opening topic for a review, either there’s some interesting backstory or the film is so boring I decide to compare it to paint drying or it’s an adaptation of a book so I can do some basic research and pretend that I know something about the book or comic that a movie is based on. Then there’s films like Pets United which give me nothing to work with, literally nothing. I mean, I could run through the long list of films about abysmally animated animals going on a quest that I’ve subjected myself to over the past few years in a vain attempt to get more eyes on some of my hilarious takedowns of films that belong in the discount bin at the dollar store (Read my review of The Big Trip) but… after Pets United? I’m just so tired.
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The Boys S02E05 – Out On Set
The second last Boy’s review of the week (I’ll hopefully have the one for todays episode up sometime tomorrow) and it might also be for my favourite episode of the season.
The Boys S02E04 – Outside there be politics
And here we go, my review of the 4th episode of this season of The Boys is up and ready to go. Read, enjoy, I’ll have some actual film reviews soon but I’m enjoying getting a backlog going (Just wait, I’ve got a doozy coming)
The Boys S02E03 Review – Outside You See A Whale
Here, it’s been a little over a day, have another review of an episode of The Boys, this time the one with the big whale because why not?
The Social Dilemma (2020) – Oh, You Got Trouble
Released: 9th September
Seen: 20th September
On some level we all know and accept that social media is evil. They sell our data to anyone who asks nicely, the algorithm has a disturbing habit of pushing people towards extremism and they have rules that they enforce sporadically at best. It’s a running joke that when someone we know finally joins Twitter or Facebook, we send them condolences because their lives are about to get dramatically worse. We know these companies are evil… but just how evil are they?
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The Boys S02E02 Review – Oooh The Outside Boys
Another day, another review over on Soda & Telepaths which means here is my review of the second episode of The Boys, with any luck I’ll be caught up soon so these will go out on the day the new episods appear and I won’t be so far behind anymore
The Boys S02E01 Review – The Boys Are Out Of Town
Oh, Over on Soda & Telepaths I have been given the fun job of going through The Boys episode by episode for the new season and talking about it. Come over there and watch as someone who hasn’t read the comic tries to figure out just what the hell is going on.
Spiral (2020) – Spinning Right Round Baby
Released: 17th September
Seen: 20th September
When it comes to queer characters as the leads in horror films, I have to admit I can’t come up with many. Nightmare on Elm Street 2 may have put all the gayness into the subtext but it was still there, genuinely groundbreaking for that time (and the subject of a fascinating documentary that I may have reviewed a while ago). Hellbent was a slasher film that made the bold choice to have all the victims and even the main villain be gay men in West Hollywood. Cursed had a gay supporting character, Scream 4 had one character who claimed they were gay (It might’ve been an attempt to not get stabbed, which didn’t work) and that’s where I run out of films (I know there’s more, damned if I can name them). They’re certainly never really pushed by any big companies or made mainstream, so for Shudder to make a horror movie about a gay couple and link the story explicitly to the gay experience is pretty awesome and the film is… good.
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The Devil All the Time (2020) – The Devil Went Down To Ohio
Released: 11th September
Seen: 18th September
In 2011, the novel The Devil All the Time was released and was instantly showered with awards and praise. Written by Donald Ray Pollock as a follow up to his book Knockemstiff, it was a big enough hit that, inevitably, the rights to the book were bought and a film adaptation was announced way back in 2018. Well, now we are here two years later and what did they make? They made… a film. A film with two great performances that is a film, it’s not much more than that.
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