Wednesday, September 3, 2025
This past weekend, I sat down and watched Red Sonja, the feature length adaptation of the sword and sorcery comic heroine. I’ve written a lot about Red Sonja over the past few months, which is shocking since I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of the character. She is just Conan adjacent and, in a world where sword and sorcery is not all that popular, I feel compelled to keep up with her adventures.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
I’ve briefly mentioned Red Sonja in my post about Red Sonja vs. Army of Darkness. For those of you who don’t know who she is, well… it’s complicated. Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, had a character named Red Sonja of Rogatino that was featured in a story called The Shadow of the Vulture. She had fiery red hair, but no connection to Conan nor the universe in which he existed.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
A few weeks ago, a buddy of mine asked about my thoughts on Sinister, the 2012 film directed by Scott Dickinson. I told him I had enjoyed it when I saw it, but it had been a decade, and I didn’t remember much about the story. The one thing I could recall was that I really enjoyed the atmosphere and vibe of the film. My friend and I have very similar tastes.
Friday, June 27, 2025
A long time ago, the WWE decided to stop calling their fans… fans. They instead called them the WWE Universe, some backward corporate jargon that always sounded insulting and stupid to me. With that being said, I have a bit of a bias towards the word, so it doesn’t help that following the Friday the 13th/Jason Voorhees lawsuit, the owners of the hockey mask wearing character of Jason Voorhees decided to brand their venture The Jason Universe, which sounds like some sort of NFT scam.
Friday, June 20, 2025
I managed a movie theater from 2007 to 2013. It was an interesting time for the industry, as I was witness to the transformation from 35 MM film to digital. When I started in 2007, all of our screens ran traditional projectors with one to two projectionists per shift. By the time I left, all the screens were digital and projectionists were a thing of the past. This push to digital occurred for several reasons.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
After several weeks of watching 80s and 90s martial art films, I decided this weekend to take some time to catch up on some of my most anticipated horror films of the year. Until Dawn Having enjoyed my playthrough of the video game, Until Dawn was a film I was really looking forward to. Helmed by director David F. Sandberg, known in the horror community for Lights Out and Annabelle Creation, he’s probably best known for his work on the Shazam movies.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Today is Friday the 13th, the beloved anti-holiday that is more associated with a masked killer than a day of bad luck. I was thinking back to my introduction to the Friday the 13th franchise, and thought I’d share some thoughts. Like most kids growing up in the 80s, I was aware of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kruger. Their celebrity transcended the silver screen, and they were featured in commercials, toys, and tons of marketing.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Look at this poster. Its so simple, yet intriguing. Around six or seven years ago, Lady Bloodfight first popped up on my radar due to this excellent poster. It features an attractive woman in a great martial art pose, and looks both elegant and of high production, something you don’t often see in modern low-budget action films. Despite the cool poster, I could never bring myself to watch the film.
Monday, June 2, 2025
I’m not really sure if I’m just becoming less tolerant or if I feel overexposed right now, but I just can’t deal with bad visual effects these days. I’m not talking about seamless adjustments like David Fincher is known for, or even CGI used in sci-fi media like Dune or Star Trek, but I’m talking those everyday scenes that use CGI because they are cheap or lazy. Recently, I started watching Havoc, the Tom Hardy led action flick by the director of The Raid.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
The other day, I finished watching Death Warrant and my wife turned to me and said, “You sure are watching a lot of martial movies lately.” She wasn’t wrong, it seems exclusively that’s all I’ve watched the past few weeks. I’ve attempted to watch other things, but I just keep finding myself drawn back to simple action films. I was aware of this, and I shared with her what I think was the reasoning.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
A few weeks ago, I watched a movie on Tubi called Showdown. It was made in the early 90s and starred Billy Blanks. It was an unapologetic rip-off of The Karate Kid but surprisingly entertained me in that “so bad its good” type of way. This past weekend, I found myself thinking about Showdown and how I’d like to watch something similar, and that’s when it occurred to me that I owned The Karate Kid 1-3 and the remake on digital.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Here’s a funny story. When my wife and I first met, she was a little naive about how fake reality shows really were. I don’t think she believed me on how much staging went into them until I showed her a video where my brother’s boyfriend was on Lizard Lick Towing playing a character. So, it really shouldn’t have come to my surprise the night she was watching Iron Chef America and told me how The Chairman, was the nephew of the guy from Iron Chef Japan.