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Review: Outside the Wire

on January 24, 2021

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RANT: A New Dune Movie?

on September 11, 2020

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Movie Review: Tenet is some kind of something

on September 09, 2020

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RANT: Starship Troopers: The fascist propaganda movie that won't turn our world into a dystopian hellscape.

on January 22, 2020

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Chris Gregg: This a space for me to rant and rave about the important things in life. Sci-fi/fantasy, movies, books and tabletop and video games. You like those things too? Well, have a seat! Say hi, chat, stay a while!

Chris Gregg: This a space for me to rant and rave about the important things in life. Sci-fi/fantasy, movies, books and tabletop and video games. You like those things too? Well, have a seat! Say hi, chat, stay a while!

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Movie Review: Tenet is some kind of something

A few weeks ago I watched Wall-E and as is often the case with Pixar movies, it ended with me crying. It’s a simple, high concept, character driven science fiction story that gets you high on emotion . The plot itself is straightforward: ( spoilers for Wall-E) find the plant and bring it to a part of the spaceship that will signal humanity’s return to earth. As a movie, Tenet moves in a direction opposite to Wall-E. Tons of plot with very little emotion. Tenet scratches an entirely different itch and I loved every moment of it. It’s a brain movie, not a heart movie, although even then, it’s not saying anything truly profound. What’s really exciting about this movie and Nolan in general, is it’s an opportunity to see something completely new. It’s not a sequel, a prequel, a Marvel or a DC. It’s a new concept, a completely original take on a sci-fi concept and that alone makes it my favourite movie of the year so far. Much has been made about how complicated the movie is and for som...

RANT: A New Dune Movie?

Seems to check all the boxes. Classic novel? Check. Denis Villeneuve? Check. Fantastic cast? Check. Through the roof production value? Check. The novel Dune is considered something the crown jewel of science fiction. Frank Herbert blends politics, ecology and religion into an engrossing and entertaining space opera. It was way ahead of its time. It’s everything that’s good about Star Trek and Star Wars rolled into one. What the hell, throw in Game of Thrones for good measure. The problem is, they haven’t been able to make a good movie out of it yet. The David Lynch adaptation (1984) was universally panned by critics and contains cringe worthy moments like Sting in a speedo. There was a miniseries, which didn’t fare much better critically, back in the year 2000. And there have also been a few failed attempts at making adaptations in between. I would add that though a comparison to Star Wars is tempting, Dune is a rea...

RANT: I like movie posters

I’ve always loved the movie posters for the Matrix reloaded. High contrast pictures that cut off most of the character’s faces so you can gawk at the wonderfully over the top cyberpunk costumes. I like how Neo’s and Morpheus’ coats flare out like super-hero capes. I love the twins. It’s like they’re posing for panels in a comic book. I truly love these posters and back when anticipation for the Matrix sequel was an all consuming obsession for nerds like me, I could just stare at them wondering why (most versions of the posters) cut off the top of their heads? Was their some deep meaning behind them? A symbol that what we’re looking at are avatars and that their minds are actually somwhere else? Thematically, are we being reminded that these characters are victims of the engineered fatalism of the Matrix? Wachowskis wanted us to believe that everything about these movies, games and ancillary anime cartoons was part of some larger puzzle. That turned out not to be the case and the ...

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