“Prey For Help…Because Boredom Kills.” That’s not quite the tagline for this film, but it’s fitting. I don’t make movies, which I mention because anyone that does knows that it’s not particularly easy to do, and people oftentimes deserve credit just for the attempt. I write as often as I can, and while that’s also […]
I get that I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, but the trailer struck me as cloyingly cute. So cute in fact that if I were a diabetic I would keep my insulin at the ready, just in case. Gru, the villainous, though he was more misunderstood than evil, main character of […]
Welcome to the first ‘Whiny Bastard Edition’ of Screenphiles, where I do a little venting about film makers doing things that they probably shouldn’t. I was at work when I heard of the latest plan to remake John Carpenter’s “Escape From New York”–which was (essentially) already remade–in space–by James Mathers and Stephen St. Leger’s in […]
What’s better than the new “Kick-Ass 2” Official Trailer? The new “Kick-Ass 2” Red Band Trailer. Usually, what separates a ‘Red Band’ trailer from the run of the mill variety is that they tend to show more–more blood, gore, sex, whatever the movie happens to be selling. It this case it happens to be violence […]
Collider has reported that Dave Bautista has been chosen to be Drax The Destroyer in Marvel Studios’ upcoming space saga, “Guardians Of The Galaxy.” That being said, I should admit that while I haven’t seen too many films with Bautista in them, I have seen virtually every episode of “Stargate: Atlantis” with Jason Momoa, as […]
Today is the day that I have decided to celebrate a few of the things to be thankful for, like there being a sequel to Stephen Sommers’ 2009 film “G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra.” This is something I do, I should add, because I am an advocate of comic book-based films, more so than […]
Bong Joon-ho’s 2006 cautionary monster tale, “The Host” is one of the best giant monster films to unspool in years. It’s similar thematically to the original “Godzilla,” with a major difference: the monster isn’t a lizard, doesn’t breathe fire, and looks like a huge tadpole with legs. And teeth. Huge teeth. It would be worth […]
“He was always trying to f*&k the way out of himself. I have orgasms, he has wargasms.” –O What an awesomely cheesy line. Reminds me of “Do you know what happens to a toad that’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” from the first “X-Men” film. Despite how technically proficient […]
It appears that Nicholas Cage has finally come to his senses, and is putting the Ghost Rider behind him. 2007’s original, directed by Mark Steven Johnson, wasn’t terrible, but it made a sophomore mistake, namely that it was pretty tame for a movie about a character that’s possessed by a demon. The original film should […]
I am not a huge video game player, though I always seems to make my way back to a ‘StarCraft’ game. The story lines are engaging, and they’re less about how many things that you kill (though killing does come into play, it’s by no means random) than how you manage your resources, which will […]
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