This is from Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming “Gravity,” and supposedly it wowed the crowd at this year’s Comic-con, and seeing it for the first time myself I can see why. The way that the camera swoops and dives, seemingly without a cut or a break, give it a dynamicism, an almost animated feel except that it […]
You ever start something that seemed like a good idea at the time, till you realized how daunting a task it actually is? That’s what I am feeling about my ‘X-File A Day’ column at the moment. It’s a show worth revisiting, till you realize that it ran nine seasons. Then again, my mom didn’t […]
I am not yet ready to serve the naysayers that implied that “Pacific Rim” would be a flop a juicy slice of humble pie, though I am warming up the oven. Guillermo Del Toro’s love letter to Saturday afternoon monster features finished first in 50 territories, and hasn’t yet been released in China, Brazil, Spain and […]
The trailer for “Catching Fire,” the second movie in the The Hunger Games Trilogy, came out a few days ago via Yahoo, so I had to wait till it appeared in a format more easily digestible for WordPress. The first film actually caught me by surprise because I assumed that because the books that inspired […]
I should mention that the episode order is going to be a little off for a bit because the idea came to me when I was already into re-watching the series, which I started doing because my memories of it are pretty favorable. “Ice” is the eighth episode of the First season. It revolves a of group […]
Violence doesn’t necessarily solve problems in movies, but it can make things awfully interesting. Despite this, “Come Out And Play” is a bit of a bore. “Come Out and Play,” currently streaming on Netflix, is a Spanish horror film directed by Makinov, about children doing what children do, which is to slaughter any adult that […]
Despite some initial unevenness, “The Conjuring” manages to be an effective ghost story. “The Conjuring” is a film based supposedly based upon a true haunting (for that matter, so was “The Amityville Horror”) that happened in Rhode Island in the 1970’s. No matter what one thinks about such things Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and […]
Warner Bros. has revealed that they are going ahead with a Superman & Batman feature, though my question is: How could anybody be surprised by this? At this point DC has only two “viable” characters – as in, almost guaranteed to make a profit – and that’s Superman (as “Man of Steel” has shown”) and […]
This trailer was shown at the most recent Comic-con and it’s really irritating. That being said, I don’t feel that way because it’s bad – it’s awesome and pretty violent – but I am bothered because it gives away all sorts of things that I would have like to have seen first in the theater. […]
As I wrote in my review last week, I enjoyed Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” quite a bit. It was a serious film, that at moments didn’t take itself quite too seriously. If you have seen either of Del Toro’s ‘Hellboy’ films (as well as the last – and only, that I am aware – […]
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