It’s that time again…
For the first part of our year-long celebration of our 20th anniversary, we tackled what we called our “core competencies”, that is, those topic areas we had in mind when founding our sites in the first place.
In this, not surprisingly, we dealt with material where there could well be overlap between our sites. For instance, El Santo reviewed From Hell It Came, a wacky walking-tree opus with plenty of mad science; so you would wouldn’t be surprised to find it over at AYCYAS! Likewise, Will tackled the first four parts of Shake Rattle and Roll, horror anthologies out of the Philippines, a country whose genre films Santo has examined on a fairly regular basis.
This time around, though, we’ll each be tackling what we’re calling our “special subjects”: those subgenres that each of us has pretty much entirely to themselves.
#1 by RogerBW on May 2, 2019 - 5:26 am
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I picture a shadowy meeting of the B-Masters… “Who’s going to review House of a Million Eye Injuries With Bonus Animal Death? Can it be anyone but Lyz?”
#2 by Ken on May 2, 2019 - 10:06 pm
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I’m putting my money on “air disaster movie with an all-star cast”.
#3 by Alaric on May 3, 2019 - 8:08 pm
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That’s what I was thinking, too.
#4 by lyzard on May 3, 2019 - 8:22 pm
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Roger’s suggestion is more likely for our putative Part 4.
As for the other— Welllllllll, I wouldn’t say it was entirely out of the question… 🙂
#5 by goddessoftransitory on May 2, 2019 - 11:49 pm
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*pops corn, sits back*
#6 by Sebastian Howard on May 6, 2019 - 10:51 pm
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El Santo might be forced to do some superhero movie reviews!
#7 by Richard on May 17, 2019 - 2:42 pm
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I don’t know if you’ve got the themes for the upcoming anniversary roundtables yet (you probably do), but it just came to mind that it would be interesting if you could, in essence, review *yourselves*.
I’ve seen themes/challenges on places like Deviant Art where the artists repost an early work, and then redo it taking advantage of what they’ve learned over the years.
What if you dug up and reposted the earliest reviews you can find, and write about how your style(s) have changed and grown over time? What have you learned about the cinematic arts by doing all this? And, perhaps, might there be any movies where you’ve changed your opinion over the years?