Troy Olson gave me a bit of a free hand with his donation to the Carry On Campaign, providing a list of possible review subjects. Upon looking over this list, I quickly settled upon one obvious choice, recognising that there were not nearly enough Cannon Films productions reviewed on this site. I am a broken […]
Jay Marks wanted to see a horror sequel get its due appreciation for its unusual expansion upon the original when he contributed to the Carry On Campaign – and for his pains, he ended up unexpectedly sponsoring the only horror movies I ended up watching on Halloween night! So thanks, Jay. Did I find it […]
Dayna Christensen used her contribution to the Carry On Campaign to ask me to review “a bad horror movie from the last ten years”. I wish I’d been able to come up with something a bit more imaginative for her, but the harder I tried to come up with anything else, to more I was […]
Mark Clemens made a simple request with his donation to the Carry On Campaign: that I must review either A Hard Day’s Night or Help! Being something of a Beatles fan – oh yes, I am quite a trendsetter – that got me to thinking about what a good idea it would be to review […]
Nick Davis probably didn’t think that he’d be using his Carry On Campaign donation as a means of extending the Summer of Blood, but that’s just how things work ed out. At least he had the sense to pick the mostly weirdly artsy film to ever be branded a scum-sucking horror movie. From among the […]
The blog has been on a bit of an ’80s kick lately, and Adam Bertocci did his part to keep things going when he donated to the Carry On Campaign and requested today’s review. Three cheers for the decade of Reagan, leg warmers,and hair metal! Even for a decade in which the high-concept comedy reached […]
Reader JPK couldn’t have possibly known, when he commissioned this review by donating to the Carry On Campaign, that Peter Weir is one of my favorite directors – somehow, I’ve managed to completely avoid mentioning the man in the entire history of this blog. So thanks, JPK, for occasioning the Antagony & Ecstasy debut of […]
A recap: never expecting to put together a sequel to Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis found himself making two, right in a row, each of them telling a discrete standalone story linked by a cliffhanger ending that takes place seconds after the climax of the first movie. In such ways do time-travel narratives offer […]
Back to the Future ends with a giant smiley face of Hollywood froth; a playful, open-ended but nonetheless satisfying conclusion that promises our characters will still be around, having their adventures. The endless possibilities inherent in the story of a time-traveling car – which can fly now, thanks so much – created an infinity of […]
Reader Rachael Horcher found a way to get more bang for her buck when she donated to the Carry On Campaign – by using that sneaky word “trilogy”, she got three movie reviews for the price of one! Here is the story, the way I heard it: Steven Spielberg, having proven himself one of the […]
