Over on Soda & Telepaths, for Fantasia Film Festival, I went and wrote about a family made horror flick called Hellbender which is worth a look
FANTASIA 2021 Film Festival Review: Baby Money (2021)
Over on Soda & Telepaths, as part of the Fantasia film festival series, I review the indie thriller Baby Money which is a fascinaating little film worth checking out… as is my review, read and make me look awesome
Eye Without A Face (2021) – The Rear Window Looks Outside
Over on Soda & Telepaths I review the recently released Eye Without A Face, a film that is kinda like Rear Window except… not good
FANTASIA 2021 Film Festival Review: King Knight (2021)
Over on Soda and Telepaths, as part of my reviews of the Fantasia Film Festival, I reviewed this quirky comedy that’s honestly one of the funniest films at the festival so maybe go over and read my review of King Knight because it’s quite good.
FANTASIA 2021 Film Festival Review: Strawberry Mansion (2021)
Over on Soda & Telepaths, as part of the Fantasia Film Festival review series, I talk about Strawberry Mansion which is one of the most gloriously weird films of the festival and I really enjoyed it
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) – It’s Time To Slam Now
Released: 15th July
Seen: 12th August
In 1992 there was a series of Superbowl commercials involving Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, and they were a smash hit. They were so popular that they effectively revived the world’s interest in Bugs Bunny, which at the time was on somewhat of a downhill slide. This led to Warner Brothers having the wild idea to take these commercials and turn them into a movie. That movie was Space Jam and it was a mega hit, raking in 250 million worldwide with a soundtrack that I promise you was everywhere.
I was there, you couldn’t escape the Space Jam theme song or I Believe I Can Fly (Which… yeah, kinda helped a rapist stay out of prison where he belonged, we were distracted by this song). This album won awards, went 6x platinum, it was everywhere. Space Jam was astronomically huge, albeit critically panned and most people recognise it more as a harmless guilty pleasure than anything else… and now, 25 years later, they made a sequel that no one was asking for – and apparently decided it’d be fun to try and make a film that was actively bad instead of just kinda silly.
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Vivo (2021) – Magical Monkey Business
Released: 6th August
Seen: 8th August
While Netflix has been kind of hit or miss with a lot of their releases this year, I have to admit that their animation stuff has been knocking it out of the park almost every time. Arlo the Alligator Boy, Wish Dragon and The Mitchells VS The Machines are some of the best animated films of 2021 so far and it’s nice to see Netflix assuring them wide releases. Now the newest release, Vivo, is gunning to be the 4th great Netflix animated film of the year and goddamn it might be the second best of them all (…hey, Mitchells VS The Machines is a hard act to beat, OK?)
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Peter Rabbit 2 (2021) – Fine Furry Family Fun
Released: 25th March
Seen: 7th August
In 2018 the film Peter Rabbit came out to a fairly mixed response. Personally I thought it was fine, James Corden hadn’t quite become full cinematic poison just yet (though he had just done The Emoji Movie, so he was getting there) and the film itself had enough silliness and charm to be fine for the little kids. It was cute but I was fine with it sticking to just a single film, a feeling I grew more sure of the more my general disdain for the lead actor grew (the man did Cats, Superintelligence AND The Prom within a year, a trilogy of performances that should end careers). Now having finally seen the sequel… It’s a bit of an improvement on the original, but I can also be done with this series at any point now.
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Pray Away (2021) – One Of The Most Important Doco’s Of The Year
Released: 3rd August
Seen: 3rd August
If you want to get on the express ticket to my bad side, be on the side of Conversion Therapy. Conversion Therapy, otherwise known as Pray Away The Gay, is the idea that people can be turned straight via some form of extreme therapy. In reality, it’s a way to force queer people into suppressing their true selves in order to be accepted by a group made up of bigots who have only read one book and decided that the part of that book that said gays were bad was a rule they had to follow forever but the part about mixed fabrics was up for debate. Over the years there have been a lot of documentaries regarding this movement but the recent documentary Pray Away might be one of the best of the bunch.
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The Seventh Day (2021) – Give It A Goddamn Rest
Released: 28th January
Seen: 3rd August
A good staple of the horror genre, one that has been done time and time again, is the Exorcism movie. You know the drill, young person gets possessed by demon and ends up tied to a bed, an old priest and a young priest turn up to yell bible verses at them, there’s a little vomit and occasionally some magical torture until finally the demon is cast out and the child lives on. Basically, everyone saw The Exorcist way back in 1973 and decided they could do that too (except no one has ever come close to being even half as scary as The Exorcist). So, when I tell you that The Seventh Day is ANOTHER exorcism movie with nothing much of value to offer, just pretend to be shocked by that information.
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