“Despite my initial reticence, when you take “World War Z” on its own terms, and accept that its not going to follow the novel, you’ll have a good time.” I must admit that going into Marc Forster’s “World War Z,” my expectations were somewhat low. I mean, how can you have a half-decent zombie film when virtually all your […]
I wrote in October of last year that Sam Raimi was planning a remake – a term that’s always synonymous with*maximum suckage – of Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist.” That’s still happening, though Raimi is producing, not directing. That job will be handled by Gil Kenan. Prior to this gig, he helmed “Monster House” and “City Of […]
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a huge audience for Legos. They’re two theme parks dedicated to them – called Legoland – in this country; one in California, the other in Florida. Overseas, there are Legolands in Germany, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and Denmark (where they were invented). But does that mean that anyone wants to […]
There’s a new international trailer for David Twohy’s “Riddick,” and it happens to be in Springboard format, which I have forgotten how to embed into WordPress (which makes it worse than never being able to embed it at all. Trust me on this). It shows Riddick doing what he does best, which is evading a […]
Can I ask a question? Why does Hollywood ever bother trying to create dragons? If you’ve seen Matthew Robbins’ 1981’s fantasy film, “Dragonslayer” you’d realize that his creation, Vermithrax Pejorative (which is an indicator of how geeky I can be because I pulled that from memory) has to be the best looking, most dragony-looking, dragon […]
Neill Blomkamp is the Real Thing. By which I mean he’s managed to combine social commentary and action in a fashion that doesn’t alienate either audience. His first film, “District 9” while excellent, could have easily been a fluke. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time that a director sees a decline in their […]
““Silent Hill: Revelations” by relying so much on the exposition from the original film, suffers.” The first thing that you’re probably asking is: Why is he reviewing “Silent Hill: Revelations?” Didn’t that come out last year? It did, though in my defense I intended to review it when it first appeared in iTunes a few months ago, […]
Zach Snyder’s “Man Of Steel” is significantly better than I expected, though not nearly as entertaining as it could have been. That’s probably one of the most weasely summations of a film that I have ever written, but it’s fitting. Much is riding on “Man Of Steel” because if it succeeds – and early returns […]
Now this trailer I like, compared to the last one, at any rate. That being said, there are caveats: The most serious being that the Silver Samurai that appears in the trailer seems to be entirely CGI, which makes him look like a really shiny Cylon, instead of a man wearing samurai armor, which is […]
Just when you thought that those Spartans from Zach Snyder’s “300” were defeated, six years of so later comes “300: Rise of an Empire.” I assume that there’s another group of almost unconquerable warriors, once again squaring off against Xerxes (the guy in the golden underwear from the first film, who’s actually based on a […]
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