Author: Madison

As this site has grown and developed over the past year or so, I’ve really enjoyed writing reviews for lesser-known independent and foreign films.  Living in New York, I get to see a lot of…

I ride in an elevator every day during the week in order to get to my office (and no, I’m not one of those lazy bastards who takes the elevator from the first to the…

  Have you ever watched a SyFy original movie?  To call them absurd would be an understatement.  Don’t get me wrong – they can often be sort of fun to watch – but drama isn’t…

There’s something eerily prophetic about the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Last Action Hero, as since the time of Arnold, Sly, and to an extent, Bruce, a true, masculine, action hero has yet to emerge in…

I wasn’t too familiar with Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, knowing him only as a Japanese animator whose works are just now starting to see appreciation in the West.  I decided to rent Ponyo, his most recent…

Normally, when I write a “Where Are They Now?” post, I take a look at what’s happened to the major cast members of movies I’ve grown up with.  For this post, though, I decided instead…

It’s been awhile since I’ve written a review as part of our “Movie Vault” category, but Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was such an unexpected, unusual experience that I felt obliged.  I don’t recall…

  We’ve covered movie gunfights and fictional weapons here at Unreality, but we’ve never really given any love to knives.  Knives obviously aren’t as effective as guns, and maybe that’s the reason why wielding a…