Despite the attention lavished on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, and even Star Trek or the Alien universe, I feel like the scienc...

Watching Delicious in Dungeon and  Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (which are both great, so watch them), I've noted that both displa...

I went with most of my gaming group to see Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves this past weekend. The short review is: we all enjoy...

  After my previous blogpost, fellow blogger and Asian Cinema-phile Steve  suggested a couple of martial arts films that actually have some ...

The original version of this post appeared in 2017. Then, I was criticized by a couple of people for being unduly harsh to the film Willow ....

 Being in sort of a Old West/Frontier mood of late, I got around the checking out a couple of things that had been on my list for a while, b...

On other social media, Paul "GRIDSHOCK 20XX" Vermeren mentioned he had watched Streets of Fire for the first time after hearing t...

I watched Army of the Dead on Netflix this weekend and thought it was pretty enjoyable. Briefly, it's the story of an eclectic group hi...

What if during the late 50s to mid-60s Sword & Sandals movie crazy, somebody had got around to making a Conan film? Here's my sugge...

Oz Perkins' Gretel & Hansel is based on the fairy tale, but is a different story in many ways. This blogpost will contain some mild...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has not exactly been embraced by critics, though this is unlikely to blunt its box office draw much. St...

Truthfully, I find Cthulhu himself a bit played out, but invoking his name is a nice shorthand for the concept I had in mind. Warning: Thi...

Yesterday, Amazon delivered the blu-ray version of the 1965 Polish film The Saragossa Manuscript directed by Wojciech Has. The film has b...

Since Avengers and a shoddily animated post-credits scene, we've been teased with this. So even if, like me, you're beginning to...

I saw Pacific Rim: Uprising yesterday. My short review: If you liked the first Pacific Rim , you will probably like this one, though I mi...

Some relatively non-spoilery ways I think the movie adaptation of Annihilation could inform dungeoncrawls: 1. Relatively mundane creat...

To be fair, I guess it started with Rogue One , but that was a side story set in the past. (It had more of an EU feel than The Last Jedi ...

Though occasionally I've seen the term "neo-Western" to mean "a Western made in the last couple of decades," I thi...

A saw a couple of movies this weekend, and I both of them made me think of gaming in one way or another: Everyone will tell you Thor: R...

The Halloween season is upon us, and if that puts you in the mood for a horror-comedy about kids who seem a bit old to have babysitters in b...