After 200 posts, I’ve decided to get serious! I’ve added a couple of subscription options and a contact widget. There’s a comment field on every post, but if people have suggestions or ideas, this will be a good way to get ‘em to me! So Yay! myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/2024/10/noti...
After almost 200 posts, I've finally decided that it's time to expand Reaction Shots' reach. We're on BlueSky (@reactionshots.bsky.social), ...
One of my top ten movies this year. It’s bludgeoning and beautiful in the most perverse way that can mean (think Andre Breton). A film of ideas, passionate about its thesis, and yeah, kinda lurid. Maybe even a wee gross. myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-...
It’s not subtle, but Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is blunt confrontation with the pressures put on women to remain youthful, vibrant, and...
After mulling it over, gonna do a series on Lovecraft adaptations. I have some of the usual suspects in mind and a couple of oddballs. Gordon’s Re-animators but also his Dagon; Die, Monster, Die but also, the HP Lovecraft Society’s production of The Call of Cthulhu… Any other titles or ideas?
Let’s face it; not every film is a masterpiece and even when some are declared to be epic successes, some of us sometime just don’t see it. Here are some well-regarded flicks I just don’t think measure up to the hype. myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-...
And that’s what I think of your “great” movie! One of the benefits of maintaining this blog site is that I tend to write about what I choose...
Also, because we can’t have too much social media in our lives, Reaction Shots is also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
A little late (if seasonally appropriate). A honkingly fun film and a worthy sequel. myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/2024/10/say-...
My eyes rolled so hard to the back of my head when Tim Burton announced the casting of the sequel to his seminal film Beetlejuice that the...
Of course, it’s inevitable that in writing criticism, we turn a critical eye on the process itself exhibit A: myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-...
Can we all join Bill Murray in chanting “it just doesn’t matter”? C’mon! Everybody!! “IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN’t MATTER! IT JUS...
Fifty years?! Wait, what? Oh, I can’t pay coy; just means I’m older than I care to admit! myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/2024/10/its-...
I have other ideas for a theme for this season, but it would be tragic not to celebrate Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece’s 50th anniversary. Seen o...
Gotta start somewhere! Welcome to Reaction Shots on Bluesky. Happy to have you along and if I don’t always reply/respond, it’s likely ‘cause I’m over here: myreactionshotreviews.blogspot.com/p/blog-page....
Reaction Shots grew out of necessity and consideration for others. Emails that go on forever with detailed analyses of movies and lengthy co...