Starship Troopers: Invasion 2012 – Arachnids are back

Fortunately so is Terran Federation’s Mobile Infantry and they are ready for action. Starship Troopers made it their fourth movie installment, although this one is en excellent CGI animated movie. It all starts with a simple rescue assignment, but turns out to be a Covert Ops mission that could bring The Earth into danger. Continue reading

Ju-On The Grudge 2004 – American version Ghost problems? Just send Buffy!

Anyone who enters the haunted house is cursed and killed by a vengeful spirit that dwells there. The American way! Continue reading

Metropia 2009 – Evil shampoo?

The world is running heavily out of oil and Europe is looking like a post apocalyptic ruin. There’s a giant network of underground railroads (The Metro) connecting an entire continent, and almost whole of population of Europe is using it as their main transport. Roger is a sad and lost individual that thinks he’s going insane because of the voice he hears in his head when he comes closer to The Metro. But when he meets a model, Anna, he sees that he’s been wrong, and his life turns around, being thrown to the world of marketing, dandruff shampoo and people that work in the shadows. Continue reading

The Brain 1988

It just came to me.. I watched it about 20 years ago. Even as a 10 year old, I fonud it funny.  A giant brain like blob with over sized incisors trying to control the world. It all started with a certain Dr Blakely who runs a scientific self helping TV show called “independent thinkers”, watchers not realizing that … Continue reading

Bad Taste 1987 – What did Peter Jackson direct before visiting Middle-earth

An entire population in a town is killed and replaced by aliens who came to Earth in search for new taste to offer in their fast food chain restaurants. And the new taste is Humans! After hearing a disturbing phone call for help, the Astro Investigation and Defence Service (yes, the short for that is AIDS) dispaches „The Boys“, to save the world before the aliens all turn us into tasty Human burgers. Continue reading

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury 2004 – sharpen your knives and shine your eyes

This is a short animated movie that serves as a nice little tie in between Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. It starts immediately after Riddick, Jack and Abu ‘Imam’ al-Walid barely managed to escape an alien infested planet. They ship has been picked up by a ship that serves as a prison and naturaly it is also filled with mercenaries. Since our lad Riddick is a wanted man, that can only mean that it is time for more action and killing. Continue reading

Jim Butcher – Storm front

Meet Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. A professional wizard in Chicago. The only one in the phone book. When you see something funny, or need something resolved, that would make you look silly in normal people’s eyes, he’s the man to call.

Strange Days 1995 – SQUIDS!!!

Lenny (Ralph Fiennes) is an ex cop that deals SQUID recordings. A SQUID is a “Superconducting Quantum Interference Device” that you put on your head and, through your cerebral cortex, it records everything you experience, what you see and feel, and if someone else plays what you recorded they’re going to see and feel the same. It’s, of course, illegal. Oh, and the movie is set in Los Angeles that became a war zone, everybody’s waiting for the new millenium, and there’s some police conspiracy, so you can see where this is going. Continue reading

Van Helsing: The London Assignment 2004

Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is sent to London to investigate strange murders. He realizes that they are committed by no other then Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde himself (or should we say themselves). This is an animated prequel to the 2004 movie Van Helsing which I always liked. It gave a new twist on the Van Helsing character and I always hoped to see a sequel or two in the near future. Continue reading

Gwai Wik Re-Cycle 2006

A famous writer’s new horror book called Re-Cycle is announced to the public, while the book was in the early stages. As she is struggling with writer’s block, caused by the announcement pressure and personal issues, strange things start happening and she finds herself somehow trapped in the world she created. The movie starts with a good horror atmosphere, pacing itself nicely while at the same time they characterize the main protagonist Tsui Ting-Yin as a successful writer while she struggles with her emotions, her past love, and writer’s block. Continue reading