Scott Von Doviak’s Top 10 Movies of 2015
Year-end top ten lists are arbitrary time capsules; invariably we look back on them a few years down the road and are as baffled by…
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Mad Max: Fury Road and the Movie-Going Experience
Sound Of Noise: Six Drummers and an Absurdist Caper
Frank Sidebottom and ‘Frank’
Leviathan
Science Fiction Notebook: Robot and Frank
Robot and Frank, 2012 directed by Jake Schreier, written by Christopher D. Ford; starring Frank Langella, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon (Amazon, iTunes) Summary: Ailing ex-con…
Science Fiction Notebook: Automata
Automata, directed by Gabe Ibanez; Screenplay by Gabe Ibanez, Igor Legretta Gomez, Javier Sanchez Donate; starring Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Amazon, iTunes) Summary:…
Science Fiction Notebook: The Machine
The Machine, 2013, directed by Caradog W. James, starring Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens (Amazon, iTunes) Summary: A despondent scientist protects his ailing daughter while building a…
What We Do In the Shadows
For more than two decades, Nicholas Cage’s Vampire’s Kiss has been my hands down favourite vampire movie. But recently, that place of honour has been…
4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Before getting into Eric Rohmer’s 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Amazon), a 1987 film from the director recently released on DVD by KimStim, I…
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song & Coonskin
A while back, I wrote an article for this site called “The Joy of Scarcity for Cinephiles” in response to an article written by Jon…
The Strange Little Cat
The Strange Little Cat (Amazon), the debut feature by Swiss writer/director Ramon Zürcher, reminded me at times of the creative writing classes I took in…
Scott Von Doviak’s Top 10 Movies of 2014
Hollywood isn’t really in the movie business anymore. The studios are all about building franchises within franchises, stoking fan anticipation for superhero movies scheduled for…
The Babadook
Every so often, from when I was a kid reading Stephen King books on the school bus into adulthood, someone will ask me how I…
20,000 Days On Earth
For what I am about to admit, the great Goth council will show up at my door and take away my Goth Card ™. But……
Cult Horror Movies and Cult Sci-Fi Movies by Danny Peary
The three volumes of Danny Peary’s Cult Movies served as prized reference books for cinephiles of a certain age. Published in the 1980s, Peary’s books were a…