Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #17: DCEU and Zack Snyder’s Justice League

The Lighthouse – A Voyage Through Purgatory

On the surface, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is a story about two lighthouse keepers driven to insanity. However, nothing is at seems in this film. Like Eggers’ first film The Witch, The Lighthouse is a period piece. Set in the late 1890s, the film’s two main characters, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert […]

Overlord Review

J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot are synonymous with high concept film and TV, making Lost and the Cloverfield franchise. They combine the war and horror genres with their latest film Overlord. On the eve of D-Day American paratroopers are sent behind enemy lines to help the invasion. One squad is tasked to destroy a radio tower on an old […]

Unhinged Review

Road rage: it is something that most people have suffered from at some time in their lives. The thriller Unhinged takes the experience of road rage to its nightmarish extreme. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is a struggling single mother who’s often late, lost her business, and has an ex-husband demanding their house. When she’s late taking […]