For anyone interested, here’s how my process of choosing what to post here on elroyonline works: I watch stuff, lots of stuff, lots of really random stuff. Some of it isn’t great, some of it is ok, some of it entertains me enough to want to share it with some folks. Those folks is you. [...]
Long before Peter and Walter Bishop started exploring the fringe with that chick who isn’t Clare Danes. Before Sam and Dean put on their best denim and started poking around in the supernatural. Before Buffy was slaying creatures of the night with witty dialogue, and before Mulder and Scully were doing file keeping for the [...]
ACOLYTES is the work of Jon Hewitt, a man whose short resume of movies (both as writer and director) doesn’t stray too far from the thriller genre. With Acolytes he has an ‘additional writing’ credit along side two other writers, Shayne Armstrong and Shane Krause, whose only other credits are for the first two episodes [...]
Not knowing what to expect from a movie is always the best place to start, in my opinion, because without any preconceived idea about what you’re going to watch, then it’s pretty hard to be disappointed. The reality is that you can never really have ‘no idea’ of what you’re going to watch, unless someone [...]
With the absolute glut of lame crime-dramas clogging up television schedules these days, it’s hard to imagine anyone pulling off a decent crime-thriller. It’s even harder to imagine someone managing to create a film that not only surpasses all the crap on TV, but actually gets pretty damn close to the likes of SE7EN. What’s [...]
It’s been a while since I made a Remote Viewing episode, mainly because they’re a pain in the butt. So this time round I’ve tried something new, and I’m calling it a Remote Viewing Video Log. The basic idea is that I wanted to move away from the whole “show” aspect of the previous Remote [...]
At every step of the way, while watching DONKEY PUNCH, i was that idiot who screams at the screen for the characters not to do the thing that they are clearly about to do. And a few minutes after ‘every step of the way’ I was the know-it-all asshole muttering “Told you not to!” under [...]
This intense horror / thriller from Thailand really surprised me. Despite the absurdity of the plot, which revolves around an online ‘reality’ game which must be something of a logistical nightmare to pull off, 13 GAME OF DEATH is actually a very entertaining, albeit stomach churning, movie. Pusit finds himself at the end of his [...]