Mark Sheppard has some serious acting chops! Normally don’t spotlight a particular actor, but his performance is here is pretty exceptional. I originally saw this episode quite a few years ago, so I forgot about him till the reboot of “Battlestar: Galactica.” When I next saw him, he was playing a very ambitious demon in […]
Funny, on first hearing the title of Ridley Scott’s follow-up to “Prometheus,” it never occurred to me that it referred to a lawyer. Prior to this trailer I imagined it was about a high school athletics coach or something. And whoever cuts trailers for Scott deserves some sort of recognition because they always manage to […]
Now this I like! Many of the beats are the same from the earlier trailer, but everything looks more personal, more intense. The relationship between Thor and Loki is also given more attention, which is always a good thing. There’s humor present as well, though mainly of the relationship-type (though Thor’s response after defeating the […]
What is it about identical twins – as opposed to fraternal – that makes them so creepy (I mean the type that doesn’t seem to understand that, despite looking alike, that they are two separate individuals)? These twins – that seem to exist only exist only in movies, like David Cronenberg’s excellent “Dead Ringers,” – […]
Whether or not Gavin Hood’s “Ender’s Game” succeeds or not, I think that, as a director, he gets a bad rap. Sure, he directed the execrable “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” – though he also had a hand in the surprisingly entertaining series “Breakout Kings,” currently on Netfilx, as well as the Academy Award winning film “Tsotsi” […]
Imagine your entire world, from birth to death, as taking place on a train. And on this train, you have the people that make it run – who end up as members of a perpetual underclass – and the well-to-do passengers, who end up as the people who control everything – and you have the […]
The figure to the right of Bryan Singer is a Sentinel, from the director’s upcoming X-Men adventure, “Days Of Future Past” (which is based upon a storyline from the long-running Marvel Comics series). I am not crazy about how the Sentinel looks – especially considering how much better it looks in the comics – though […]
This episode, the tenth of the series, begins with the crash of a mysterious object in Townsend, Wisconsin. The U.S. Space Surveillance Center, which according to Deep Throat tracks all objects that enter American air space, have determined that the object – due to its erratic flight path and maneuverability – is not any aircraft […]
Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” may have received an important boost toward a sequel, courtesy of a $45 million opening in China. The giant robot versus monster feature has earned almost $95 million domestically, though internationally (including the Chinese box office), has surpassed $200 million dollars. As a result, the odds for a sequel odds […]
I don’t actually think that Alan Pakula’s “The Parallax View” has stood the test of time very well. The movie revolves around a reporter, Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty) who stumbles upon a plot by a mysterious corporation, The Parallax Corporation, to create assassins. I haven’t read the book by Loren Singer but it appears that virtually everything in […]
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