Apocalypse Now (1979)

     To some extent Apocalypse Now (1979) weirdly belongs in the same category of films as Gone With the Wind (1939). Both are titans of cinema; undertakings as successful as they are grand, and incredibly difficult for me to watch. I was dreading rewatching Apocalypse Now as soon as I finished my first viewing. I guessed a rewatch would be inevitable. After all I didn’t really feel like I truly “got it”. In truth I still don’t think I do, but now more than ever I’m pretty sure I don’t really want to.

Cabaret (1972)

     10 months 2 jobs later in a year besotten by a pandemic I return to the old film blog. It's nice to know that no matter how often I abandon it I can always come back to post more musings. I've gone back to the old scratch off poster again fulfilling a promise I made just over a year ago that I'd muse on Cabaret (1972). So I done did a watch of the movie so lets do a talk about it.

Venom (2019) and Another Reboot: Rise Zombie Blog RISE!!!!

Wow I've not touched this blog in months. It was 2019 last time I posted and then I went silent with no explanation so um... surprise? Got better from my possession by the way it just seemed to vanish? it was weird I just woke up November 1st and it was gone... I'm sure it wont be back. Anyway, The silence had a lot to do with the fact that I started to write a novel... yeah like a real big boy novel. I got a draft done mid-December (at 58,000 words no less just wow). Anyway keeping quite about it for now but its a LONG way off so none of you all need to worry about it just yet. Rather, I'm gonna try and do this blog thing again. So this is kinda another reboot of the blog I'm gonna mix more contemporary works in with the older stuff cause watching just older films was starting to annoy me and I'm going to upload less to accomodate the work on my novel. Gonna try for weekly uploads but no promises I can't keep. enough rambling: Venom was a thing I just watched, and I wanna talk about so here we go.

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I'm sure you've noticed I've redecorated. The pitiful human vessel I now inhabit has such mediocre and generic tastes. For the time being I Pf'Iloigoth The Servant of Spook control his form as well as his pitiful blog. A musical about 1930's Germany and the rise of fascism may be scary but it is not in the spirit of Spook. So I am altering the course of this blog. Until the dimensional walls reassert themselves I, Pf'Iloigoth will use my vessel's experience and knowledge of film to discuss movies that are in the spirit of Spook. Beginning with the classic 1980's slasher movie Friday the 13th (1980)

Spider-Man Custody Battle Resolved Whoopty Doo

So Marvel and Sony have reached an agreement: Spider-Man is back in the MCU. The details of the agreement are as of yet unknown, and will probably never be revealed if we're all being honest with ourselves. Regardless I do have some thoughts so I thought I'd do a followup on my previous editorial on the subject.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

I've loved Stanley Kubrick's work pretty much ever since I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) when I was... about 10 I think. Yeah, I had a pretty kick ass attention span for a kid when it came to sci-fi movies at least. I even remember enjoying Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (accurately nicknamed Star Trek: The Slowmotion Picture). Of course it wasn't until much later that I saw some of Kubrick's other movies like The Shining (1980) and today's film A Clockwork Orange. The film has very strong themes of sexual and state violence so inevitably I will be discussing such concepts. If these topics are especially distressing to you it might be a good idea to skip this post.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Anyone else notice that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is pretty similar to the later Fast and Furious movies? You got this pair of criminals who are also close friends doing death defying stunts usually involving some kind of mode of transportation while on the run from supernaturally capable and powerful law enforcement. No? Just me? Okay then.