Queued Up: First Man, Horror Express, Bohemian Rhapsody, Anna and the Apocalypse, Band vs. Brand Bryan Reesman February 27, 2019 Columns, Queued Up MOON MISSION In First Man (2018), Ryan Gosling puts his trademark stoicism to good use in the real-life story of Neil Armstrong and the astronauts who manned the Moon missions that lead to his landing on Ear...
Queued Up – “Bad Reputation,” “Halloween,” and more! Bryan Reesman January 30, 2019 Queued Up PUNK AT HEART 1Many people know Joan Jett as a former member of rowdy teen upstarts The Runaways who then rose to '80s solo stardom and became a rock icon. But her story runs deeper than that, and Bad Reputa...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman December 26, 2018 Columns, Queued Up GROOVY GHOULIES As the fortunes of Hammer Films were beginning to wane, and their Gothic horror films were receiving strong competition from Amicus Productions and others, they rebooted their Dracula ...
Queued Up – Holiday Gift Guide 2018: Part 2 Bryan Reesman December 5, 2018 Columns, Queued Up HERO WORSHIP Here are two high octane superhero films that benefit from propulsive action, witty wordplay, and charming characters, but they operate on different levels. One of the few...
Queued Up: Holiday Gift Guide 2018 – Part 1 Bryan Reesman November 28, 2018 Columns, Queued Up Before Mulder And Scully… There was Carl Kolchak, intrepid reporter of the supernatural and unexplained. Both of the TV films The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973) were ratings ...
A Very Halloween 2018 Queued Up Bryan Reesman October 31, 2018 Columns, Queued Up Tales From The Hood 2 (2018) The set-up: Eerily charismatic African-American storyteller Mr. Simms (Keith David) is hired by the greedy, racist owner of for-profit prisons to record his moralistic tal...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman October 10, 2018 Columns, Queued Up Ready Player One (2018) The set-up: In the mid-21st century, an impoverished, overpopulated America, like the rest of the world, spends more time in the exciting virtual reality world of the OASIS rat...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman September 5, 2018 Columns, Queued Up Tully (2018) The set-up: Struggling mother Marlo (Charlize Theron) finds herself overwhelmed when a third child enters her life. While her husband Drew (Ron Richardson) works 9 to 5, Marlo struggles w...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman July 25, 2018 Columns, Queued Up A Quiet Place (2018) The set-up: Nearly 100 days after a monstrous invasion, a majority of humanity has been wiped out by a race of aliens that are blind but hunt their victims through an acute sense of...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman June 27, 2018 Columns, Queued Up Annihilation (2018) The set-up: After an alien lifeform lands in a lighthouse, it creates a nightmarish no man's land that the government calls The Shimmer, which has slowly been expanding and could thr...
