Author: Chris Ranson

Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Swamp Thing (1982)

Title: Swamp Thing (1982) Director: Wes Craven Runtime: 91 minutes — As I continue my journey into the world of Wes Craven, I’m starting to understand why I missed some of these. Granted, Deadly Blessing, while a slow burn, was entertaining enough for what it was. That said, I ended up grabbing the Swamp Thing Blu-ray from Scream…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Deadly Blessing (1981)

Title: Deadly Blessing (1981) Director: Wes Craven Runtime: 100 minutes — With the recent passing of Wes Craven, I’ve decided to make his filmography, minus the hardcore porn he used to make, my next completion project. I firmly sit at 77% of his filmography viewed, so I don’t have too many to watch. I figure I’ll finish…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on The Visit (2015)

Title: The Visit (2015) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Runtime: 94 minutes — I’m a huge M. Night Shyamalan fan. I have now seen every single one of his films on opening day. Yes, even The Sixth Sense. I know some of the movies sucked (The Happening, After Earth) and some were just so-so (The Last…


Graphic Novel Capsule Review – Chris Ranson on David Cantero’s Little David (2015)

Movies may be our first love here at Cinefessions, but we are proud dorks in the truest sense of the word. We love not only movies, but video games, books, comics, board games, men and women in spandex, and everything else that goes along with nerd culture. As longtime readers of graphic novels, comics, and…


Graphic Novel Capsule Review – Chris Ranson on Victor Hodge’s The Collected Black Gay Boy Fantasy #1 (2015)

Movies may be our first love here at Cinefessions, but we are proud dorks in the truest sense of the word. We love not only movies, but video games, books, comics, board games, men and women in spandex, and everything else that goes along with nerd culture. As longtime readers of graphic novels, comics, and…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on No Escape (2015)

Title: No Escape (2015) Director: John Erick Dowdle Runtime: 103 minutes — The Dywer family moves from Austin, Texas, to a fake Asian country (No Escape was filmed in Thailand, but they go out of their way to make sure you know these characters are not in Thailand). Sadly, they happen to arrive just in…


Graphic Novel Capsule Review – Chris Ranson on Eric Powell’s Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 1 (2015)

Movies may be our first love here at Cinefessions, but we are proud dorks in the truest sense of the word. We love not only movies, but video games, books, comics, board games, men and women in spandex, and everything else that goes along with nerd culture. As longtime readers of graphic novels, comics, and…