Books and Movies

 Hey guys! 2026 has been a great year for horror movies. We started the year with  28 Years Later: The Bone Temple , moved on to creature features like Primate , folk horror like Hokum , and independent gems like Obsession  and Backrooms . Of course, we couldn't have the good without the bad. And oh boy, do we have a strong contender for the worst horror film, nay, the worst film of the year.  Ice Cream Man  (2026), dir. Eli Roth, produced by The Horror Section, MCT Studios Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man  is a soulless, boring, drab, and annoying slog. And that's not even mentioning the AI elephant at the centre of this film. It follows the idyllic town of Bayleen Bay when a mysterious and creepy ice cream man comes to town and turns the children of the town into homicidal maniacs, who kill the adults of the town. Most of the film's less than 90-minute runtime consists of the absurd ways in which these killings are carried out. The children have fun as they gleef...

 What an apt movie name to revive this blog with, huh? Hey guys. I started this blog when I was 15, obsessed with movies and regularly reading and writing. Now I am 23, with three degrees, no job, just a handful of dreams. So, I've decided to get back into full-time writing on my own. I will be posting here, on my Substack, and Medium. Hopefully, this works out. That said, here's what I thought of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery .  Poster for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery , Netflix The film is the third in the Knives Out film franchise, written and directed by Rian Johnson, starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc, and shot by cinematographer Steve Yedlin. The film follows Blanc as he travels to upstate New York when a Monsignor (Josh Brolin) is murdered in a wooden booth with no entrances or exits. The film also stars Josh O' Connor as Father Jud Duplenticy, who is the prime suspect in the case. Blanc must race against time to prove his innocence. ...

Hey guys! It's been a while. But every so often, one sees a film that is so brilliant, so new, that one feels compelled to revive one's blog that has remained dormant for the past few months. I recently watched such a film; as you gauged from the title, it is Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans . The latest outing from the Schindler's List  filmmaker is quite different from his usual work. Rather than being a huge blockbuster, the seventy-five-year-old filmmaker takes a step back and reflects upon his life. You may argue that it is not his best work (and I may be persuaded to agree), but I'd argue that it's his most important. The Fablemans  tells the story of young Sami Fableman, who is actually a self-insert for Spielberg.  One night, young Sami is taken to the theatre by his parents to be shown the classic film, The Greatest Show on Earth . Obsessed by the ending, young Sami picks up the camera and tries to recreate the ending, finding that he loves being behind...

 Hey guys! It's been a while since I've had one of these. So I went back to the theatre for the first time in about six months, and the film I chose was James Gunn's Suicide Squad. On social media, many people were lauding it for being one of the best comic book films ever made, and many were even calling it the best film in the DCEU. Well, I'm here to give my two pennies' worth on the film! PLOT: Amanda Waller puts together a "Suicide Squad", consisting of convicts, each with their very own special set of skills, to pull off an impossibly dangerous mission that affects the power of dynamics of the whole world. CAST: Bloodsport: Idris Elba Peacemaker: John Cena Ratcatcher 2: Daniela Melchior Harley Quinn: Margot Robbie Amanda Waller: Viola Davis REVIEW:  James Gunn has the sense of humour of a fourteen-year old edgelord. He does not do dark comedy like Edgar Wright or The Coens, he prefers the 'oh look there's blood and guts everywhere', brand ...

 Hey Guys! Today, I want to do something different. I'm not going to be talking about one single movie, or a series, or even a filmmaker. Today, I want to talk about the nature of cinema itself and the state it is in today. Keep in mind, I must tell you that I am just an 18-year-old who finds himself deeply in love with the art form. I do not claim to be a knowledgeable person who knows all about movies. Far from it, in fact, I know nothing about movies. All I know is that I love them, and with every film I watch, my love for the art of cinema deepens. So with that, let's begin. So recently, I have been reading quite a lot of what a certain filmmaker has been putting out, by the name of Martin Scorcese. You may know my friend Martin as the director of some truly brilliant films like Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990),  and many more. A few months ago, he voiced his concerns over the nature of the cinema industry today in a brilliant essay titled Il Maest...

 Hey Guys! In March 1993, a group of directors who were disgruntled by the distance cinema had from reality banded together to make films that went back to the roots of pure, simple, and plain visual storytelling. This was the Danish Dogme 95 movement. It was headed by a bunch of renowned filmmakers, most notorious of them being Lars von Trier ( Melancholia, The House That Jack Built ). This had elements of Truffaut's " Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais " (A Certain Tendency in French Cinema), the article published in " Cahiers du Cinema " in 1964 that arguably kickstarted the French New Wave. With similar intentions, Trier set out to write a manifesto to make cinema a form of storytelling undilated by outside elements, to make it seem more authentic and true to life. He was joined by Thomas Vintenberg (whose newest film is the subject of discussion today). Together, they wrote the "Vows of Chastity", a set of rules that were designed to bring a...

 Hey guys! So... I haven't done one of these in a while huh. Well, I just saw Wonder Woman 84 and it's the only superhero blockbuster comic book movie I have seen all year... quite literally. So given that, it's probably the best movie in that genre I saw all year. So, this is my spoiler-free review of Wonder Woman 84.  PLOT: After a mysterious stone that grants wishes appears at the Smithsonian Museum, gemologist and superhero Diana Prince must stop it from falling into the wrong hands, all the while battling demons both new and of her past. CAST: Diana Prince/Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot Steve Trevor - Chris Pine Barbara/Cheetah - Kristen Wiig Maxwell Lord - Pedro Pascal REVIEW WW84 is a pretty fun film. It's 2 and a half hours long, and almost the entire runtime is filled with fun jokes and pretty decent action scenes. It works like a standard comic book film affair. You have your pinnacle-of-good superhero, absurd action that's PG-13; it's the kind o...