Category Archives: Movies
1963 – Tom Jones
Bureau 42 Movie Review – Black Adam (2022)
Are you ready to Rock?
Black Adam casts Dwayne Johnson as an invulnerable alpha-male with a chip on his soldier. Is The Rock lovable enough to counter this anti-hero’s toxic masculinity?
Bureau 42 Movie Review – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Everyone knows that Chadwick Boseman was Black Panther’s T’Challa. Everyone following the MCU also knows that he passed away. How do you make a sequel to Black Panther without Black Panther? This movie has decided to answer that question by showing you how the rest of the world of Wakanda carries on without their Black Panther. Meanwhile, Namor decides that this is the time to attack.
Bureau 42 October Review – The Munsters (2022)
While I was born too late to have watched them when they came out, even in syndication I was always more of an Addams Family fan than a Munsters fan, catchy theme song not withstanding. The reboot did seem interesting enough to catch my attention, but is it strong enough as a film without being able to draw on nostalgia?
October Countdown: The Velvet Vampire
We often include a Hammer Horror film or cult film in our October countdown: this one almost qualifies for the first category and definitely suits the second. The Corman factory decided to cash in on the success of Hammer’s contemporaneous vampire films with softcore erotic elements. Stephanie Rothman, the rare woman among the era’s exploitation filmmakers, co-wrote and directed this frequently interesting but tonally incoherent flick about a young couple invited to stay with a mysterious woman, Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall), who is…. gosh, see if you can guess:
(a) a vampire
(b) bisexual
(c) all of the above
(d) it’s (c), right? Is it (c)? I bet it’s (c)!
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia
October Review: Howard’s Mill (2021)
Like a down-home Bermuda Triangle, an abandoned patch of land outside a small town in rural Tennessee becomes the site of several unexplained disappearances. Will an intrepid crew of low-budget filmmakers solve the mysteries, or be the next to vanish?
October Review: Werewolf By Night (2022)
Marvel’s first major steps onto the cinematic stage came with 1998’s Blade. 24 years later, the MCU is revisiting the era of horror comics that Blade came from, with the first major on-screen appearance of Jack Russell… the Werewolf By Night.
October Review: X (2022)
Ti West’s deranged and frequently effective horror movie concerns a group of amateur filmmakers who rent a remote farmhouse to shoot a low-budget porn film.
Unfortunately for them, they’re characters in an entirely different kind of movie.