Avengers Infinity War: THE SPOILER ZONE

You are entering another dimension.  A dimension of truths before their time.  A dimension that violates causality if you enter enter unprepared.  You are about to enter... the Spoiler Zone!

Noroi: The Curse

Recently, I finally entered the 2010s and signed up to a streaming video service.  No, not Netflix or Amazon Prime.  You see, I have a pretty big backlog of unwatched DVDs and Blu Rays to go through, and I know that I went for something with libraries as big as the ones they have, chances are I'd never get to those piles, they'll still be collecting dust come next Christmas.  What I decided to try was one that's horror specific, called Shudder.  There's a bundle of titles on there I've been interested in for a while, but not so much that I'll need to shell out for more than a month or so to get through all I'm there for.

The main reason I started my free trial of Shudder was to check out a film my brother had mentioned on his blog, Hell House, LLC.  It's a found footage movie that, rather just present it as a raw stream of the footage as filmed, instead is edited and presented like a documentary that has gotten a hold of the footage later, which has a few extra advantages.  That one is pretty good, and I recommend you check out it, if not on Shudder then on one of the other streaming services it's on, like Prime if you have it.  However, what I want to talk about is another film along those lines, a Japanese one from 2005, thus just before the real flood of found footage films began, called Noroi: The Curse.

The Lego Batman Movie

The first film of my most looked forward to list has been released annnnddd.... it's really good!  But it's not The Lego Movie great, it does have a few issues holding it back from that.

The Limitless Diary - T2 Trainspotting

Hey folks, so I finally picked up an Odeon Limitless Card, after wembling about it for a while.  I used to have an Unlimited Card with Cineworld, but a) Odeons are slightly easier for me to get to, and b) they’re generally a bit nicer and less… sticky compared to Cineworld.  Since I’m going to be checking out more stuff at no extra cost, I thought I’d update on here more regularly as I go, keep exercising the creative muscles.  This is going to mostly about reviews and the like, but I may have the odd tangental topic on here (although I’m banning myself from going off on a rant about mobile phone use.. for now).  I guess with a deeply uncertain world right now, I’m also doing this because I seriously need a bit more escapism.  Let’s see how this goes, starting with...

October Horror Movie Challenge 2016 - Play along at home! #OHMC2016

Time again for me to engage in that most mysterious of internet film geek traditions*, the October Horror Movie Challenge.  31 Days, at least 31 Horror Movies, NO EXCUSES!!!  Once again, I'm doing it sponsored for Crisis, so if you can spare a few pennies, that would be most generous of you.

This year though, I thought I'd preface the challenge itself with something that can help you play along if you so wish.  Finding the right titles to watch can be a bit of a minefield, because I will be the first to admit that, with the horror genre these days, there’s a lot of crap out there.  So here’s a very quick look at a few recent releases that may have flown under your radars, which are well worth your time (and a lot of these are available to stream or are cheap on HMV's shelves right now, so no need to go digging!).  What’s more, I guarantee that none of these end with either “they were dead all along” or “it was the lead character’s split personality”!

Fun with Maths! - "For the Fans"

OK, I don't want to keep going on about Batman v. Superman on here, I didn't even hate the movie really, there were bits I liked, but there's something I do want to tackle in regards to some of the response.  As I have previously said, if you liked the film, fine, that's your opinion, and I have mine, just because we don't agree on this, as it is art, one opinion doesn't really trump another.  So as such, this is against all those who are rabidly manning all the battle stations to defend the film.  One defence I've heard of this film, and indeed this is something that I have heard time and again when something with this devoted a fanbase doesn't quite work out, is that it's being made "for the fans".  This is something that turns up a lot in tweets at some critics, even if said critics are pretty publicly comics fans.  Right, time to use some good old fashioned maths to help prove why this argument is terrible, especially in this particular case...

Just One More Thing: Dawn of Just Plain Rude! (Touching on SPOILERS again)

So last night I posted about my thoughts on Batman v Superman, but there's something else about this movie I do have to discuss, but deserves it's own little point.  The stupid gang mentality that seems to have sprung up around the debate of the film.  Yeah, I touched on this a bit on the little "housekeeping" bit last time, but it deserves a bit more analysis here.  Thing is though, it's far from just one way, it's on both sides of the debate, so I'm actually going to start with the behaviour of those against the movie, just to show even though I didn't like the movie, I don't have a horse in this race.