Saturday 5 August 2023

Blood Tide (1982)

Driven by Jack Daniels and desire, a drunken James Earl Jones unleashes a Jurassic hand puppet into the waters off a Greek island, with hazardous results. Alas, what might have been fun post-"Piranha" monster movie cheese instead favours an occultist sacrifice theme that overcomplicates an otherwise simple premise. This is a beautiful movie to look at but everything else crumbles because the filmmakers ask us to think about what we're watching and we discover it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The characters, meanwhile, are basically made of paper. We do eventually get a J.E.J./monster mini-fight, however, so there's that.












Immaculate (2024)

Following young American nun Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) as she starts her new life in a remote Italian convent, only to discover that her new ...