Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) Movie Review

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) IMDB Prime

Maze Runner the Death Cure movie poster

The third and final film in The Maze Runner series, The Death Cure aims to clear up all the questions you have had along the way, Why ? Who ? WCKD ? The tagline for this movie is “Every Maze Has an End” and it really does fit the storyline. In our first movie in this trilogy he saw our characters trying to escape a giant mysterious maze. In our middle story we saw a perilous journey across a wasteland. And in this final installment we get out group of heroes trying to break into the Last City (essentially the goal of the maze).

Without getting into the different factions and names in the story - if you read the book you would understand and if you didn’t it’s just a bunch of silly jargon anyway, this movie becomes a rescue mission. The action sequences are good and the story fine as long as you have seen the first 2 movies.

I also want to mention that the movie posters for this film are excellent if you like maze artwork. 2 versions of the poster made my post about the The 10 Best Maze Themed Movie Posters.

Worth a look if you saw movies number 1 and 2. I rate it a 6.5/10.

Check out the trailer below.

Mazes (Útvesztök) (2008) Movie Short Review

Mazes (Útvesztök) (2008) IMDB YouTube

MAZES (ÚTVESZTÖK) (2008) movie poster

If there is one kind of video that I always watch it is a hand-drawn animation. Get me on YouTube and give me a Bill Plympton video and I am happy. That is what this short film makes me feel like. It is a quick 8 minute short film by Hungarian artist István Orosz. One of his many artistic jobs in his career was as a poster designer and yet I could not find a movie poster for this short, so I made my own using the video. Útvesztök is Hungarian for maze.

On to the actual short. It is a series of 9 sections, each that starts with a maze, starting with the Ninth maze. You see a maze that is then solved using an on screen pencil - and the solve is always the number of the maze. Next you get a series of animated scenes; then maze 8, with the maze solved on screen, etc. It is fun to watch the animations and see what is going to be shown next. And the mazes look wonderful.

Fun to watch ! 6.5 / 10

You can watch the entire short film below !

Maze of the Week #22 - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch Maze

This week I am featuring a maze of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch located in Hartford, Connecticut to celebrate Memorial Day in the US. It becomes maze of the week #22 after a last minute switch with a lighthouse maze (now maze #37). There are many memorials (over 20) named this, or similar around the United States. This particular memorial celebrates those Hartford citizens that served in the US Civil War. The Memorial Arch was dedicated on September 17, 1886 and was designed by a local architect named George Keller.

If you want to learn more about the memorial arch, read the Wikipedia page , or just check out this video:

Here is a photo of the memorial:

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch - Connecticut State Library flickr

The maze: Finished? You decide. I can’t seem to find a clear picture of the battle scene that is banded above the arch. I attempted a few versions with it and none came out to my standards. I may add it in the future (and change the maze) if I find a good picture to work off of. I went with black and white. The brocks make for a good gridded maze construction.

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch Maze

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Downloads are available on the homepage.

Coming next week:

An iconic sign maze from the world of sports !

Also interesting:

Maze Construction - 5 Maze Design Decisions Make All the Difference

Meander (2020) Movie Review

Meander (2020) IMDB Prime

Meander movie poster

Meander is a French sci-fi film from 2020 directed by Mathieu Turi. The film starts with a woman laying in the road who needs to move out of the way of an oncoming car. The woman ends up accepting a ride in the car with a man and they begin a conversation. Things go south (no spoiler) and the woman ends up passing out. She wakes in a strange, small room with a device attached to her wrist and dressed in techy full body suit.

The majority of the movie becomes a series of obstacles that she must overcome to escape the maze of tunnels she is stuck in. Walls are moving, countdowns are happening, water is flooding, tunnels are heating up, etc. It is a 1 person version of The Cube but in happening tunnels. Add in a strange creature (possibly an alien?), and some flashbacks of her life and we get a science fiction movie.

Through trial and error we get a woman trying to solve the maze, using clues others have left for her to find the exit. Does she?

Interesting movie, but a but too weird for me. 4.8 / 10

Check out the trailer below.