EuanBrook

EuanBrook

If Oscar Wilde and Algernon Charles Swinburne had an uncultured baby. brookingthevault.wordpress.com/

Favorite films

  • Female Trouble
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • Chimes at Midnight
  • Galaxy of Terror

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  • The Primevals

  • They Live

  • Day of the Dead

  • Sisu

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  • The Primevals

    The Primevals

    The tragedy of modern sci-fi/fantasy cinema is that stop-motion was getting really, really good by the time CGI came along. Hey we're able to perfectly align miniatures, matte paintings and stop-motion figures with actors now, without any obvious rear-screen or blue-screen tinting! Wait nevermind we can do the whole thing on a computer.

    This isn't a dig on CGI, I know a lot of the animation work done here will have been done digitally, but it's still a shame that…

  • They Live

    They Live

    Hear me out: Little Shop of Horrors/They Live double-bill. Think about it.

    I saw the New Yorker did an article about how unsubtle films are today, which just made me laugh because the entire plot of this is about rich people mind-controlling everyone into becoming mindless conforming consumers, but you still have idiots like David Icke concluding that it actually really is about skinsuit-wearing aliens.

    Maybe that's part of the aliens' plan, to have idiots like Icke obfuscate obvious movie…

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  • Nick: The Feature Film

    Nick: The Feature Film

    Chris Alex (the voice actor behind Carl in the cartoon Llamas With Hats) doesn't get enough credit as the great actor and terrific performer he is. Nick and Robert are awkwardness afficianados but Chris is this incredible, terrifying ball of energy with his constant adlibs and monologues.

    I'm honestly surprised that this is my first logged FilmCow film here, when I habitually rewatch the film Detective Heart of America: The Feature Film, and watch their videos on the regular. It…

  • Scenes From My Balcony

    Scenes From My Balcony

    Guy is peeping, but peeping is foiled by lady turning her light off.

    Cinema, everyone.