The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

Being big fans of The Man in the Pan (who occupied our site banner before we had an artist friend do a re-design) we were keen on exploring one of the inspirations for Re-Animator, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Superficially silly sci-fi movies like this, are conduits for exploring timeless questions like “who decides end of life?”Continue reading “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”

Quarantine

Quarantine is a cash-in retread of the superior [REC] and features that awful woman from Dexter, about whom it’d be uncharitable to say, nearly ruined the series if that wasn’t pretty much correct. Here, Jennifer Carpenter as Angela is in full-bore annoyance mode, playing an LA journalist doing a meet & greet/ride-along with local firefighters for a news seriesContinue reading “Quarantine”