After watching the Italian Star Wars rip-off, The Humanoid, I decided to dip a bit further into that well. And with that, we have Starcrash. And as much as I enjoyed The Humanoid, this is just a much more enjoyable experience overall.

This one focuses on a couple space smugglers that are on a mission to rescue the Space Emperor's son who has gone missing. Not to spend too much time comparing this movie with The Humanoid, this movie sort…

I want to say that this is one of the more egregious examples of a blatant Star Wars rip-off riding the wave of that movie's success, I actually want to know if there was ever a lawsuit for this one in particular. But then the movie is just so strange and ugly (complimentary) that it sort of holds up as it's own interesting thing.

So... Planet Earth (now called Metropolis, but it just looks like a nondescript desert wasteland) is…

Had the immense pleasure of attending an advance screening of this movie in theaters. Not to harp on Netflix as much as I often do, but it's such a shame most people will never get the big screen experience with this movie. I'm fortunate that I got that experience because the movie is gorgeous. I admittedly rarely watch modern animated movies, so my standards may be skewed, but the style is undeniable.

The hero of the movie is a baseball…

I believe I'm finally juuust out of range of the "young demographic" - i.e. new things becoming wildly popular without me being even slightly aware. For Backrooms, I knew about it, thanks to social media, but I didn't know it would be such a smash with the kids. Now that I've finally experienced one facet of the creepypasta concept, I think I can sort of see why.

The movie stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve as folks who discover a…