Horror’s Having Quite A Year, Isn’t It? Horror’s having quite a moment, isn’t it? I mean, obviously it being October the genre’s enjoying its usual annual renaissance, rising from its dormant phase to chill us to the core much the same way Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” does every December (and, let’s be ..
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes matter – for every single one of us. What does a strike by a bunch of multi-millionaire movie stars and mega-rich writers have to do with us? And why should we care? First of all, this isn’t about the millionaire movie stars and big name screenwriters, although you’ll hear plenty ..
A Low Key 10th Anniversary I don’t think, in any of the times I thought about the idea of What The Craggus Saw reaching the ten-year milestone, this post is what I had in mind. In fact, my most common fantasy of the blog’s 10th Anniversary was that it would be a grand finale, drawing ..
Who Is The Craggus? On a website in a corner of the internet there blogs The Craggus. Not a nasty, dirty, website, filled with pay-to-view titillation, nor yet a dry, dusty, boring site with only data and nothing to read and enjoy: it was a movie blog, and that means movie reviews and pop-culture nonsense. ..
…and we’re back! Nine years ago today, What The Craggus Saw made its debut with a modestly adequate review of the modestly adequate romcom I Give It A Year. And now, here we are, three thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven days, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five posts* and over a million words later coming ..
It’s been a crazy couple of years, right? First of all, lockdown didn’t seem so bad. Obviously, it was terrible that cinemas were forced to close but the silver lining was that suddenly I was in full control of what I could write about and there was time to catch up with things I’d always ..
With the 25th Anniversary of Janeway and her plucky crew starting their very own Voyage Home on UK TV screens arriving tomorrow, thecraggus.com is launching a new Instagram Exclusive series of Star Trek: Voyager episode reviews of each and every episode of Star Trek: Voyager, each and every day until we reach Endgame. We’ll be ..
At 20:22 on the 7th of June 2013, I clicked on the “publish” button for the very first time, posting my very first review, the uninspiring and now all-but-forgotten I GIVE IT A YEAR. Thankfully, the film’s title wasn’t a prognosis of the blog’s future and here we are: eight years 1,674 posts 180,390 views ..
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With the announcement that next year will see HBO Max cynically leverage a vocal and demonstrably toxic fan movement to launch their new service with a Zack Snyder-autered reinterpretation of 2017’s disappointing but ultimately adequate “Justice League” (as a vaguely defined four-hour movie, or possibly six-hour mini-series) we at least have proof, finally, that there ..
Do not go gentle in that interview, Old filmmakers shouldn’t burn and rave at close of box office; Or rage, rage against the art of those younger than you. Though wise men at their end know what is right, Because their art has busted no blocks they Do not go gentle on that which might. ..
With the popularity of the zombie genre simply – heh – refusing to die, when thecraggus.com heard about “Day 66”, a new independent horror movie filming practically in our own backyard (or, more accurately, literally in the backyard of a friend of the family), we weren’t going to sleep through the end of the world. ..
1,214 posts 781,005 words And a lot of fun and stress along the way. There’s still plenty more to come from What The Craggus Saw as we head towards our Magnificent Seventh Anniversary next year, including: and so much more. So, whether you’re reading us for the first time or for the thousandth time, ..
They say Misery loves company and right now, Annie Wilkes has a lot of it as we hear the familiar refrain of disgruntled, entitled fan[atics] flinging their shit at the walls over the fact that “Game Of Thrones” – “Game Of Thrones” mind – has had the temerity to subvert their own personal expectations and ..
Once in a while, there comes an idea so ‘good’, Hollywood does it twice. But does this presage double trouble or a two-for-one treat? Which of these famous accidental double-bills do you prefer? Deep Impact (1998) v Armageddon (1998) Volcano (1997) v Dante’s Peak (1997) White House Down (2013) v Olympus Has Fallen (2013) A ..
With “Venom” grossing $855m worldwide and “Aquaman” taking over $1billion at the global box office, one thing is clear: the box office domination of the Superhero movie genre is coming to an end. How can this be you ask? When collectively the two most recent movies in the genre hovered up almost $2billion in ticket ..
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Hot takes roasting on an open thread, hashtags nipping at your prose. Once a year, everybody on Twitter, Facebook and beyond come together in a grand celebration of that most joyous of events: debating whether or not “Die Hard” (or occasionally another film) is really a Christmas ..
Okay, so ‘spectacular’ might be overselling it, but nevertheless here we are: our 1,000th post and still going strong. Well, still going at least. Over the past 1,000 posts, there have been a lot of highs: not forgetting our most-viewed post ever: And some lows: I’ve made zero, ZERO progress on this bold plan from ..
I’m not kidding. Release the ‘Snyder Cut’ of “Justice League” already. I’ll pre-order the Blu-ray right now. I’m not about to call AT&T Customer Service to ask them to release it or anything but, sincerely, I absolutely think Warner Brothers should release the Snyder Cut. Whatever my personal antipathy towards much of the DCEU’s output, there ..
Five years ago, I posted my first ever review on What The Craggus Saw, the (in hindsight) ironic and pessimistically titled “I Give It A Year”. Five years and 627,082 words later (that’s 343 words a day, stat fans), here we are celebrating the site’s fifth anniversary. In its time, What The Craggus Saw has ..
Friend of the Craggus, Fernby, has written an excellent piece excoriating the state of Star Wars fandom in the wake of the news of Kelly Marie Tran being hounded off Instagram. In turn, he inspired me to wax, if not lyrical, at least passable. Ode To Star Wars Fandom They did not come for the ..
Forty years ago, at 6:00pm on Tuesday 2nd January 1978, the BBC launched a new science fiction adventure series: “Blake’s 7”. With its prime slot on the New Year Bank Holiday Monday, this certainly wasn’t a low key launch for Terry ‘Creator of the Daleks’ Nation’s latest sci-fi extravaganza and it proved to be quite ..
A Justice Carol by The Craggus & Charles Dickens STAVE ONE Superman was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk (not Kent), the undertaker (not the wrestler), and the chief mourners (WB shareholders). Bruce Wayne signed it: and Wayne’s name was ..
“You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” That seems to sum up most people’s reaction to the status-quo-shattering acquisition of the entertainment assets of Twentieth Century Fox. It’s also, ironically, a quote which will become the property of the Walt Disney Corporation if the deal goes through. Both ..
Hello cupfishcakes! 😃🦈 It’s the UK premiere of “Sharknado 5: Global Swarming” tonight on SyFy UK (9:00pm if you’re wondering) and we’ve had a lot of fun over the past seven days here at What The Craggus Saw with Shark Weak but amidst all the man-eating monstrous nonsense, there’s a lot of things these presumably ..
With all the fuss and noise over the announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor Who, it got me thinking about how it would have been if The Doctor had always been a woman – a Time Lady instead of a Time Lord? So, for my 700th Blog Post I thought it would be ..
We are mere minutes away from finding out who will become the sixteenth actor to portray Doctor Who in the Time Lord’s fifteenth incarnation: The 13th Doctor is nigh (not Nighy, although that would be kind of awesome). I’ve always held to the theory that “your” Doctor isn’t the one you first start watching, it’s ..
Fifty years ago today, Gene Roddenberry’s unprecedented perseverance and belief paid off and, after intriguing the network enough to commission a second pilot, “Star Trek” took to the airwaves. A television and pop culture landmark, fifty years later there’s a legacy of five television series (with a sixth on the way) totalling 725 episodes and ..