Looking Good: The Invisible Swordsman (1970) on Arrow Video Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 9th, 2025 A comedy of bumbling slapstick, relying on the ineptitude of both its heroes and its villains.
I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024 How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?
Maybe They Should Save Themselves: Maxxxine (2024) as Middle Finger By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2024 I think that Maxxxine really believes that it has something to say in all those theme-heavy monologues
Personal Items Work Best: Oddity (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 31st, 2024 Oddity is an extremely slow burn, though it keeps elements of eeriness and dread close at hand.
You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024 One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.
No Gods, No Masters: When Titans Ruled Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • September 20th, 2024 Clash of the Titans came out during the baffling moment when Sam Worthington was being cast as the lead in everything.
“Abigail, Don’t You Think I Know What You’ve Done?” By Orrin Grey • September 9th, 2024 Even without its marketing campaign sweeping any legs it might ever have possessed out from under it, however, Abigail was never destined to be any great shakes.
Uninvited and Unseen: Two Chilly Classics of the 1940s on Blu-ray Together By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2024 The success of The Uninvited hangs in the air around Lewis Allen’s 1945 follow-up, The Unseen.
This Town Needs Me: It’s a Wonderful Knife (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 20th, 2023 This is a film where the plot and performances are more stylized than the shooting and, as a result, is a disjointed, tonal mess.
A Scene That Defies Belief: Godzilla Minus One (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 5th, 2023 As with Shin Godzilla, this is an attempt to return to Godzilla’s roots as a purely destructive force. There is no way in which this Godzilla is a “good guy,” even as roundaboutly as the one from the MonsterVerse films.
