Monthly Archives: November 2011
Weird Wednesday: Congo
Welcome to the Soothsayer’s Weird Wednesday. I’m not the Soothsayer. For the month of November, I will be filling in on Wednesdays to allow our host to get that sleep he never gets and to bring you a different flavor of review. I’ll be taking a look into my own crystal ball to bring you [...]
Movie Review: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
After the tragic events of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, the producers needed to find a way to keep the series going. That all came down to the mind of Apes screenwriter Paul Dehn who had been steering the series since the first sequel. Paul was the one who wanted to bring the [...]
Movie Review: Escape from the Planet of the Apes
“Escape from the Planet of the Apes” is the best sequel of the original five Planet of the Apes films. In the film, Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and Zira (Kim Hunter) are thrown back in time to the 1970s when one of their fellow apes Dr Milo repurposes Taylor’s spacecraft before the destruction of Earth. They [...]
Movie Review: Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Where do you go after one of the greatest endings of all time? “They blew up! Damn them all to hell!” Well according to this first Apes sequel, you bury your head in the sand like an ostrich and give up. “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” begins where the previous film left off. Taylor [...]
Movie Review: Planet of the Apes (1968)
I have seen the classic Planet of the Apes probably twelve times at least. Each time like any great film I find something new. This week I have dedicated this blog to the first science fiction movie phenomenon. So be here! GO APE! The original novel was written in 1963 by French novelist Pierre Boulle, [...]
Foreign Friday: Girl Who Played with Fire
We are taken back into the dark world of Stockholm’s underworld again through the lens of author Stieg Larsson. This time our heroine Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is up to her neck in trouble when she is framed for three murders including two of Mikael Blomkvist’s (Michael Nyquvist) friends. Lisbeth’s framing could be linked to Blomkvist’s [...]
Retro Review: Below
After the Tiger Shark submarine, U.S.S. Manta mysteriously lost her captain, Lt. Richard Brice must pull his crew together and unravel an eerie mystery to get his crew home alive. “Below” is one of those films that got lost in the shuffle of theatrical release. Headlined by sci-fi director David Twohy (Pitch Black), “Below” is [...]
Weird Wednesday: Labyrinth
Welcome to the Soothsayer’s Weird Wednesday. I’m not the Soothsayer. For the month of November, I will be filling in on Wednesdays to allow our host to get that sleep he never gets and to bring you a different flavor of review. I’ll be taking a look into my own crystal ball to bring you [...]
Retro Review: Lucky Number Slevin
Are you one of those movie-goers who is annoyed when a film is too cheeky? You know those kinds of films where you never get caught up with the characters because they all think they are so smart. Well I had that problem with “Lucky Number Slevin” and not to mention I guessed the film’s [...]
Are Disney sequels worth it?
I have begun a new quest on this blog. I have decided to take an in-depth look at all the animated Disney sequels. I began to this quest because one of my favorite Disney animated films of the past twenty or so years is the very underrated “The Rescuers Down Under” and well it was [...]
