It was very nearly 12 years ago that I splashed out for my first domain and web hosting account, and have been maintaining Pulpmovies.com ever since. Originally the site was hand carved (badly) from raw HTML. Then I became interested in managing the site dynamically and got as far as learning PHP and writing half a content management system before switching to WordPress (initially as several instances tied together with a bit of SQL and, finally, as a single WordPress instance.
The site itself has given me the opportunity, initially, to talk about the films I was seeing when I first moved to Amsterdam. More recently, it has provided me with access to films that I would otherwise not known about, some of which have been superb.
Maintaining Pulpmovies has been both interesting and enjoyable and I have gotten a lot out of it. But priorities change and I am increasingly finding that I no longer have the time to devote to watching and talking about films. It is with some regret, therefore, that I shall be slowly starting to pull the plug on the site in the near future.
I have a few unwatched and unreviewed DVDs that I want to get through over the next couple of months. After that, I shall be putting Pulpmovies on hiatus.
This post, however, is to remind myself to stick to this plan when I next receive an email about some really interesting sounding film that someone has just completed.
When I saw Familiar, I knew very little about the film and I do think this is the best way to see it initially. Writer/director Richard Powell does an impressive job of revealing just enough to keep you hooked throughout, and holding back just enough to keep you uncertain as to exactly where this is going. This makes for a shockingly brutal final reveal.
The most recent review went up on Pulpmovies today. Bubba Moon Face is a bleak look at the bleak lives of a group of people with no hope and no future.
There have been many adaptations of Poe’s work over the years and Her Heart Still Beats is certainly one of the better ones. The film is a a modern take on Poe’s Gothic themes and one that works well because the filmmakers so clearly understand their source material.
Metronome Productions is an independent company staffed by a group of film students. Their first film, Boiling Point, is a short thriller which – while not perfect – does display a lot of potential.
Horror/mystery, The Big Bad is a nightmarishly surreal reworking of Little Red Riding Hood and one that packs a lot into its script. I liked it and can see myself pulling out the DVD again in the future.
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