violence

  • Preacher Season 2 Ends With Many Loose Ends

    I didn’t think for one second that this season of Preacher would end happily for anyone given the absurd and violent nature of the show, but I can say that I was definitely surprised that it ended just as unhappily as it did. To put it plainly, our heroes are screwed....
  • Review – The Belko Experiment (2017)

    James Gunn, who wrote the screenplay for Blumhouse Tilt’s newest big screen outing, is clearly trying to make a statement. What that statement is, however, is not very clear. And I don’t mean that it’s ambiguous; I mean that there is clearly a sense of social satire, but The Belko...
  • Review – SAGA, Vol. 1

    “Am I shitting? It feels like I’m shitting.” This is the first line of dialog that we are greeted with in Saga, and right off the bat I knew I was in for something unusual. I mean, it’s not every day you open up a comic book and see...
  • Review – Jason McNamara’s ‘The Rattler’ is Tragic, Brutal

    In The Rattler, Stephen Thorn and his fiancee break down on the side of the road. When they hail a seemingly well-intentioned woman for help, she hitches up their broken down car and begins to tow it away. There’s only one problem; she’s not stopping. Even worse is that Thon’s fiance,...
  • Retro Review – Evil Dead 2 (1987)

    Sam Raimi’s cult classic The Evil Dead, released in 1981, was a somewhat serious affair – a horror movie intended to be taken as a horror movie. The story now is commonplace; a group of friends take a vacation to a cabin in the woods, only to have things go terribly...