Film posts
I'm currently doing a film challenge:
I've posted film reviews (notes? ramblings?) on and off for years, and I discovered that writing a few paragraphs embedded the film a little more in my memory. I also love the structure of a film challenge. It gets me out of endless scrolling and helps me choose.
Previous film challenges:
September 19 2026, 11:50
Resident Evil (2026)
Medical courier Bryan takes an extra job at the end of the night to get an emergency bag to the general hospital in Racoon City. It’s snowy and dark, and on the road through the mountains he hits a woman who is infected with something... nasty. Stuck in a remote wilderness, Bryan has to get to Raccoon City with his medical bag, which is more important than he knows. [more...]
September 13 2026, 08:43
Colony
Professor Se-jeong arrives at a high-rise building in the centre of Seoul to attend a presentation by biotech company Chains Bio. Meanwhile, Seo Young-chul, a scientist and disgruntled ex-employee, phones the police to tell them he is about to commit an act of bioterrorism with a weapon based on the evolving intelligence of slime mold. [more...]
September 12 2026, 16:40
Exit 8
A man gets a call from his girlfriend while getting off an underground train in Tokyo, and she tells him she’s pregnant. She’s disappointed at his muted reaction, but before he can express his feelings to her, he loses the connection and finds himself lost in the station corridors looking for Exit 8. [more...]
August 31 2026, 19:43
The Dog Stars
Hig, a mechanic, lives alongside Bangley, an ex-sniper, in a valley in Colorado, several years after a flu-like plague wiped out most of the human race. Bangley is a hard-nosed survivalist, but Hig is a gentler soul who relies on his family dog, Jasper, for company... [more...]
August 29 2026, 19:18
The Beyond
Liza inherits a derelict hotel in Louisiana swampland and, short of other options in her life, decides to repair it and open for business. Fifty years before, an artist at the hotel is accused of being a warlock and brutally killed in the basement. [more...]
August 27 2026, 18:09
Army of Darkness
After fighting Deadites in a cabin in the woods, Ash falls through a time/space hole and lands in a medieval landscape where he is taken prisoner by Lord Arthur. At Arthur’s castle, Ash is thrown into a pit of Deadites... [more...]
August 23 2026, 21:01
City of the Living Dead
Mary is a psychic, and at a New York séance she has a vision of a priest hanging himself in a church graveyard. She breaks the circle and dies, causing journalist Peter to investigate. Visiting her grave as her body is being buried, Peter hears her screams and pulls her out of the ground still alive... [more...]
August 22 2026, 16:35
Insignificance
Four iconic figures meet in a New York hotel room in 1954. They are not named, instead called The Actress, The Professor, The Senator and The Baseball Player, but it’s clear who they are meant to be: Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio. [more...]
August 21 2026, 16:42
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Filmmaker Kris has signed up to reboot a famous eighties horror film franchise set at a summer camp. The studio wants it to be "woke" to attract a young audience, but Kris wants to make something artistic. She sets out to meet the reclusive original final girl, Billy Summers... [more...]
August 16 2026, 08:47
Adaptation
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has writer’s block trying to adapt a bestselling book, The Orchid Thief. He is obsessed with doing the book justice and not letting down the author, New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean. Charlie’s happy-go-lucky twin brother, Donald, is temporarily living with him... [more...]
August 08 2026, 12:19
Freaky Tales
Four tales set in an admirably accurate 1987 Oakland, California, held together by a through line of a cheesy TV advert for a cult-like group offering a course in Psytopics. [more...]
August 06 2026, 21:09
I, Madman
Book shop clerk and aspiring actress Virginia loves pulpy noir horror and can’t put down a book by new discovery Malcolm Brand. The gruesome details and savage story line excite her, but they also keep her awake at night, and new boyfriend Richard thinks she shouldn’t read them. [more...]
December 30 2025, 11:03
Velvet Buzzsaw
This is a story of greedy art world snobs getting their comeuppance. Art gallery receptionist Josephina steals paintings from the room of a dead artist who wanted them all destroyed. But the paintings are cursed, and those who profit from them begin to die in gruesome art-related ways. [more...]
December 27 2025, 21:25
Death Walks at Midnight
On the surface, this had everything I love in a film. It’s a mystery set in a European city, in the world of fashion, nightclubs, parties, with artists as lovers, eccentric minor characters galore, murder with a weirdly brutal weapon... it could be perfect. None of this matters if the pacing is off, the dialogue is dull, and there’s no character development. [more...]
December 26 2025, 21:43
Anaconda
I was trying to find a film the whole family would enjoy at the cinema on Boxing Day, and when I saw Anaconda, certificate 12A, with Jack Black and Paul Rudd, I thought I’d hit the jackpot. The twist is that neither child wanted to come, so the jackpot was all mine. [more...]
December 21 2025, 18:58
Mermaid Legend
On the Japanese coast, a newly married couple bicker on their fishing boat. Migiwa dives for shellfish, and Saeki minds the rope to pull her up. One night, Saeki sees a fellow fisherman killed on the water by a passing speedboat, and when he takes Migiwa to investigate, he is harpooned in the chest. Migiwa survives and goes into hiding, but as she begins to understand what’s going on in the village, she is driven to revenge. [more...]
December 19 2025, 16:00
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Yikes, the plot of this one... John Diman is an old man staying at an expensive hotel on the French Riviera, but he was once a secret agent for a clandestine government organisation. He spent years trying to catch a leather-clad female assassin called Serpentik, but she evaded him to the end. Memories and reality merge as he walks the hotel grounds and wonders if Serpentik has at last come for him. [more...]
December 13 2025, 14:42
Warning Sign
At a remote agricultural biochemical facility, a group of scientists are celebrating a discovery, but while taking a photograph a vial is accidentally broken and the whole building is immediately shut down. Government forces arrive to manage the incident, confusing the people of the town who don’t know the facility’s true purpose. Sheriff Cal Morse knows his wife is trapped inside and decides he has to try to get her out. [more...]
December 08 2025, 22:07
The Shrouds
Karsh Relikh part-owns GraveTech, a company that wraps up dead bodies in a material that allows the living to view it in its grave. His wife, Becca, died of cancer, but five years on, through the technology, he notices mysterious growths on her decomposing body. Soon after, the graveyard is seriously damaged, the technology of the graves hacked, and Karsh’s business hangs in the balance. [more...]
December 06 2025, 20:50
Cloud
Ryōsuke Yoshii buys and sells things on the internet. He has a knack for sensing what’s valuable to the market, then buying cheap and coldly selling for enormous profits. He escapes Tokyo with girlfriend Akiko to find more space for his wares, cutting off his boss and other business associates to do it, but his insensitivity makes him enemies, and a group of them track him down for revenge. [more...]
December 01 2025, 20:07
Demons
Music student Cheryl accepts tickets to a film event at an old cinema from a man in a demon mask. She takes her friend Hannah, and they hook up with two boys to watch the start of a horror movie. In it, two similarly dressed couples disturb the grave of Nostradamus and uncover a demon mask. [more...]
August 27 2025, 20:05
Matt and Mara
Mara, a married creative writing professor, is surprised when Matt, a very close friend from her past that she no longer hears from, shows up at one of her lectures. They pick up their relationship while Matt is in town, leading to Matt driving Mara to a literary conference where the nature of their relationship is called into question. [more...]