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Blu-ray Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World on Blogcritics.

Every once in a while, somebody does something right — and manages to make a highly enjoyable movie. Naturally, said flick goes largely unnoticed by the populace; an act of negligence that only makes this less-than-perfect world even inferior — and which should condemn them all to be doomed in my book. Coincidentally, Lorene Scafaria’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is about a less-than-perfect world’s final days, wherein the Earth and all its inhabitants are about to be destroyed by an oncoming asteroid. But this isn’t your average Roland Emmerich atrocity, folks: this one’s actually a love story, completely devoid of such burdening contemporary cinematic elements like shallow characters, bad acting, and excessive amounts of CGI. (more…)

Stake Land Blu-ray Review: It Goes for the Throat

In the film industry, all it takes is one hit. Zombieland — a film that I really did not enjoy whatsoever — not only opened the door for movies like Stake Land to be made, but removed it from the hinges completely, allowing for movies like, well, Stake Land to be made. Following my initial disappointment over the fact that I hadn’t been given Skate Land like I had hoped, I settled down to check out Stake Land. The story here involves a teenage boy (Connor Paolo) named Martin (a nod to a certain George A. Romero film, perhaps?) teaming up with a guy he calls “Mister” (Nick Damici, who has a strange Harvey Keitel/Kim Coates/Fred Ward look goin’ on) after the world is besieged by a plague of vampires — bloodsuckers who no doubt had enough of the whole Twilight franchise. [Read the rest at Cinema Sentries.]

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Blu-ray Review: Infestation (2009) (UK Release)

Originally posted at blogcritics.org

There aren’t a whole lot of modern-day horror/sci-fi/comedy flicks that actually succeed in setting out what they accomplish to do: make me laugh. Most of the films that venture into the ambitious field of genre-crossing come off as stilted and irksome. Infestation, however, is a mini masterpiece.
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