Moria - The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review

20/08/2025

A more detailed explanation of what's happening with Moria.

The site has been restored but at reduced functionality. What you see in terms of the changed colours, layout and the mess of the menus is the sight that I was greeted with on Monday morning. When I previously finished posting on Sunday afternoon, everything was working fine. There have been no updates, no break-ins or support work done on it so it is a complete mystery as to what has happened to it.

The decision was made to restore the backup. However, the site is massive and sprawling. It is akin to one of the robots in an SF film that stumbles about collecting junk to its body and continues to stumble on shooting sparks in all directions.

The expected indefinite delay was due to the fact that when the backup was restored the database insisted on going and indexing everything from scratch. Because of the size of it, this was taking a massive amount of time and consuming 100% of the site's CPU resources. When I last looked, it from what I could tell was only 3% through indexing after 48 hours, which meant that the site could well have been offline for days, if not weeks.

Maintaining the site is starting to become more than I am capable of and well beyond my technical skills. With a mix of A.I. code analytics and a good support team, I have been successful at keeping on top to date. At least when things are going right. But I am not sure how long I can keep going with it in the current state.

The current version of the site is workable, if not ideal. Me and tech support are still trying to find out what went wrong. If anyone has any worthwhile input they can add to the mix, ideas are welcome.

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19/08/2025

I am sorry people. Moria will be offline for the indefinite future.

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17/08/2025

A big-budgeted Spanish-made zombie film based on a best-selling book. Familiar material with a solidly effective telling

https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/apocalypse-z-the-beginning-of-the-end-2024.htm

16/08/2025

The seventh of the Jurassic Park/World films. The last few have slipped into easy formula but this receives a shot in the arm from new director Gareth Edwards, director of Monsters, the 2014 Godzilla and The Creator

https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/jurassic-world-rebirth-2025.htm

15/08/2025

An adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic alien invasion novel, although one that Wells would have difficult recognising with the story having been modernised into the era of mass data surveillance, social media and Amazon delivery drivers. Shot in the screenlife process where all of the action takes place on a computer screen

https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/war-of-the-worlds-2025.htm

14/08/2025

Returning to today's double bill focusing on Experiments That Unleash Dark Forces.

Psychic Experiment (2010). A film overstuffed with mad ideas and genre cameos about psychic experiments that have unleashed a series of other-dimensional entities

https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/psychic-experiment-2010.htm

14/08/2025

Today's double bill: Experiments Unleash Dark Forces.

First up: The Rizen: Possession (2019). Sequel to the earlier The Rizen, a British-made horror with the group of people trapped inside a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors

https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/rizen-possession-2019.htm

13/08/2025

The original Emmanuelle was the supposed memoir about the sexual dalliances of a bored wife in Thailand. It was turned into a hit film that was the first softcore film released by a US studio. Some fifty Emmanuelle films on, she is now abducted by aliens for further unclothed encounters

https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/emmanuelle-in-space-first-contact.htm

12/08/2025

A comedy about two wannabe brothers desperate to break into the film industry who try to enter a horror movie competition by making their own s***f movie, only for everything to start going wrong

https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/beginners-guide-to-s***f-2016.htm

11/08/2025

If you have not come across the unique and utterly individualistic films of Perry Blackshear before then you need to do so forthwith. Here he makes another extraordinary kitchen sink work about a handicapped brother and his sister’s possible ghost fighting a demonic figure

https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/when-i-consume-you-2021.htm

10/08/2025

A werewolf film with an original idea and a furious action movie sensibility

https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/werewolves-2024.htm

09/08/2025

28 Days Later was the work that started the modern zombie film revival. Twenty-three years later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to make a third film in the series

https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/28-years-later-2025.htm