Month: November 2017

Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Title: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 127 minutes “My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, ‘When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.’” — Unlike Night of the Dead, it only took me one viewing to fall in love with…


Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Title: Night of the Living Dead (1968) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 96 minutes “We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn’t going to solve anything.” — Night of the Living Dead is such an important film in the pantheon of both the horror genre, and the zombie sub-genre. Of course, it’s not…


The Cinefessions Podcast – Episode 111 – The Corman/Poe Cycle – The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Welcome to episode 111 of The Cinefessions Podcast! Today, Marc and Branden continue the Corman/Poe Cycle, looking at the seventh film that Roger Corman adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s story, The Masque of the Red Death from 1964. They also move on to round forty-one of the Besting the Backlog Challenge, discussing Green Room (2015)…


The Cinefessions Podcast Special Edition, Vol. I – Jigsaw (2017) Review

It took over 100 episodes, but we’ve finally reached out very first bonus episode of Cinefessions: welcome to The Cinefessions Podcast Special Edition, Vol. I! On this inaugural episode, Branden and Marc review Jigsaw which hit theatres a couple weeks ago. In the interest of full disclosure, The Cinefessions Podcast Special Edition episodes are eventually…


The Cinefessions Podcast – Episode 110 – The Corman/Poe Cycle- The Haunted Palace (1963)

Welcome to episode 110 of The Cinefessions Podcast! Today, Marc and Branden continue the Corman/Poe Cycle, looking at the sixth film that Roger Corman adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem and HP Lovecraft’s short novel, The Haunted Palace from 1963. They also move on to round forty of the Besting the Backlog Challenge, discussing Easter…