Essentialist of… End of the World Movies – Aliens
Whether they are scuttling lizard creatures or building-sized behemoth’s, we do seem to love a bit of planet-wide doom by alien invasion.
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Essentialist of… Unusual Christmas Movies
Christmas movies lay it on a bit thick for a curmudgeonly misanthrope like me. Here is an #Essentialist of some of my least hated films set in the festive season.
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Essentialist of… End of the World Movies – Comedy
End of the World Movies – Comedy lists some great films that approach the apocalypse with a wry smile, a bittersweet tear or a nihilistic gut laugh.
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Essentialist of… End of the World Movies – Disaster
With the possibility of apocalypse by contagion so prominent in everyone’s minds right now, I thought it might be timely to offer up an essentialist series that delved into films about the end of the the world. However, the big screen really loves a disaster and worldwide threat… so there are a lot. Seriously, there
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Essentialist of… End of the World Movies – Disease
This is the first in a series of posts which will cover the Earth’s impending or past doom by disease, aliens and disaster, whether they be classic, animated or comedy.
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‘Til all are one – How in 1986 Transformers The Movie murdered my friends, and it was brilliant. To my fellow victims – ‘bah weep grannagh wheep ninibong’
While the television series had breathed life into all of those characters, the film killed most of them off. And I loved it.
Star Trek Beyond – Where The Frontier Pushes Back
Star Trek returns to its roots; exploring strange new worlds and discovering new civilisations, before inevitably getting into a massive battle with them.
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Tusk – How Kevin Smith Kind Of Made Walrus Horror Work
Even completely transformed, with bulbous flesh and surgical augmentations, you can see Justin Long’s little face at the centre of it, screaming in horror. It’s really him in there, and it actually is kind of terrifying.
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A Halloween Horror Selection
Evil viscerally, audibly permeates every beam, forcing its way into reality as Ash sacrifices his sanity to counter the malevolent force. But who needs sanity when you have a chainsaw attached to your arm-stump?
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Some Are Born To Sweet Delight – Dead Man
In the end, Blake ties his fate to his gun, fulfilling Nobody’s portentous statement, ‘That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written in blood.’
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