Posts Tagged ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
Film Review – The Vast of Night
The Vast of Night (2020) plays like a great sci-fi thriller told ‘round a campfire. Using a minimal amount of sets and locations, the film makes the most of what is both seen and isn’t seen. The strength of the writing brings us in, rounding…
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Film Review – The 5th Wave
This movie doesn’t deserve a completed review. In what’s supposed to be one of the key emotional scenes of The 5th Wave (2016), a character walks up to another who is thoughtfully looking into the sky. “What are you looking at?” they ask. “The stars,”…
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Double Feature Showdown – The Faculty vs. Cooties
I’m going to be honest with you; I am not a fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I kind of like the books, but I haven’t read them in about twenty years, so who knows what I think now.) The movies are…
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Film Review – Transcendence
I came away from Transcendence (2014) wanting to like it. In my head, I tried to run through as many positive elements as I could. You know you have a problem when you have to force yourself to think about what a film did well.…
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Film Review – The Host
I’m torn. I don’t know if Andrew Niccol’s The Host is one of the worst movies of the year, or one of the best. It is bad—hilariously bad. The writing is stilted, the acting flat, and the plotting damn near incomprehensible. Stephenie Meyer, best known…
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Double Feature Showdown – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) vs. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien invaders replace earthlings with pod people? Hell yes, sign me up to watch that movie; in fact, sign me up to watch two of them. I present to you this episode’s Double Feature Showdown challengers: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) versus Invasion of…
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Episode 232 – Alien Movies
In honor of the release of Dark Skies, Spencer and Greg discuss alien movies.
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Episode 149 – Alien Invasions
In honor of the release of Battleship, Spencer and Greg discuss alien invasion films.
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