Monthly Archive: July 2018

Horror / Movie Reviews

Unfriended: Dark Web

Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

Directed by Stephen Susco

Viewed in Theatre

 

Summary: After grabbing a laptop from the lost and found at his workplace, Matias exposes his friends to the dark side of the internet.

 

So this is a movie I was eagerly awaiting. Going to the movies as often as I do means seeing the same trailers over and over again and this movie’s trailer was really bad. I would laugh every time it came on screen, bad. Everything about it just screamed low budget found footage horror film that was a movie where a bunch of people sit around on Skype watching ‘torture porn’ videos and reacting to them, so I did not think I was going to enjoy this movie at all. Its partially because it looked so bad that I even decided that I was going to see it, and I’m glad I did because I think I liked it.

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Dog Days of Summer / Movie Reviews

Sox: A Family’s Best Friend

Sox: A Family’s Best Friend (2013)

Directed by Jason Horton

Viewed on Amazon Prime

 

Summary: A family having trouble getting along gets a little help(?) from a new dog who just happens to be telepathic. But this dog has problems of his own as a Federal Bureau of Dog Investigation agent is trying to track him down!

 

Is This A Thing?

So it seems that I have found myself a bizarrely specific niche of movies that I enjoy (?) watching and discussing. I was so completely baffled when I saw the first “A Doggone…” movie that I just had to keep exploring this strange, and relatively new, subgenre of dog based fiction. Part of what makes this so personally interesting is that the idea of a dog who has telepathic powers and essentially the mind of a human can get a little creepy especially when…well…we’ll get into that a little later.  Ah well, someone has to talk about telepathic dog movies, and if not me, then who?

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Site News

Relaunch

Thank you all for being patient with me, on Monday we are relaunching the website and continuing with the reviews, starting with a recent horror film Unfriended: Dark Web! In the meantime though, please enjoy the newest Dog Doys of Summer that I am posting today!

Site News

Recent website troubles.

I want to thank everyone reading this for being so patient. Recently I’ve been trying to upgrade and expand my web presence (patreon, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and my website, and this has taken a bit more time and effort than I anticipated. I am going to improve the website and accompanying social media and get everything back to normal soon. Thank you so much!

Dog Days of Summer / Movie Reviews

Dude, Where’s My Dog?

Dude, Where’s My Dog? (2014)

Directed by: Stephen Langford

Viewed On: Amazon Prime

 

General Summary: Dog appears. Dog leaves. Fart jokes happen. Dog appears again. Dog eats invisibility formula. Fat jokes happen. The children look for their dog. I beg for the sweet embrace of death.

 

Dude, Where’s My Title Ripped Off From?

Riding high on the totally relevant and not at all dated reference to the classic Dude, Where’s My Car?, Dude Where’s My Dog? Is…actually not really a rip off or even all that similar to the plot of the Ashton Kutcher movie. It’s just an excuse to make a “funny” title that could be a reference to a movie that’s….I haven’t seen Dude Where’s My Car? in more than a decade, so I don’t really remember it, but I can’t imagine it’s worse than this movie. Spoiler alert: This is probably the least enjoyably bad dog movie I have seen thus far into the Dog Days of Summer.

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News

Hey everyone, sorry about the lack of recent updates, been a little hectic recently but I will still get 3 updates out this week, most likely Wednesday-Friday. Thank you for your understanding!

Dog Days of Summer / Movie Reviews

A Doggone Hollywood

A Doggone Hollywood (2017)

 

General summary: A telepathic dog befriends a suspiciously familiar group of children while evading pursuers. Hilarity does not ensue.

 

Which Idea is Top Dog: Christmas Vs Hollywood?

Upon viewing A Doggone Christmas, I thought I had found something unexpected. Though the movie was only tangentially Christmas related, it allowed me to laugh with a silly B movie rather than at it. In this enchanted state I chose to watch another movie from Jim Wynorski’s filmography, A Doggone Hollywood. Only moments into this movie, I realized that any goodwill I felt from the first movie had  quickly been squandered.

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Horror / Movie Reviews

Dead Shack

Dead Shack (2017)

Viewed On: Shudder

 

Ah, the classic setup.

Following a long tradition of horror films, Dead Shack is a coming of age horror comedy set in a series of shacks deep in the Canadian wilderness. Dead Shack takes our heroes, a family of working class Canadians and one of their friends, on a weekend vacation to a mysterious cabin in the woods that they’ve rented. On the drive up there characters are quickly established: the first we meet is Jason, a mild mannered and often teased softie; Colin, a foulmouthed and vulgar jokester: and Summer, Colin’s sister who doesn’t like Colin’s sense of humor or her father’s new girlfriend.

 

When they arrive at their vacation destination they quickly learn that, shockingly, a cabin in the woods isn’t the safest place to be when your nearest neighbor has a house full of zombies.

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