I like Joss Whedon (which is a little odd–and mildly creepy–since I have never met the man). He not only can direct kick-arse action films (“Serenity,” “The Avengers”) but he also has this snarky way toward responding to events around him that’s refreshing, especially in these days of self-important commentators that are more about telling […]
“Nolanitis” is a disease I named after Christopher Nolan, the director of the Batman Saga. A definite sign of the condition is when film makers feel the need to render the fantastic, the wonderful, on more human terms, sapping the aforementioned fantasticalness and wonder in the name of a realism no one asked for in […]
Halloween’s just around the corner, which is why it’s the perfect time to discuss monsters and other things that go bump in the night. A creature that is currently in vogue is the zombie, which is enjoying a surge in popularity, evidenced by “The Walking Dead,” a series about a small band of survivors who […]
I’d be amiss if I didn’t include the trailer for “Halo 4,” which I have to admit that I have never played (though the trailer reminds me of Blizzard’s “Starcraft,” which I have). It’s really interesting how video games have moved toward the cinematic. Heck, this trailer looks better than some for genuine movies that […]
Here’s “The Evil Dead” Red Band trailer, and it is so NOT SAFE FOR WORK–unless you work in a slaughterhouse, or perhaps in a hospital trauma unit, where so much blood, gore, and self-mutilation would not be so beyond the pale. I mean, I am not one to shy away from copious amounts of the […]
Timing is always an interesting thing. On the seventeenth, I inquired about Sam Raimi rebooting Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist.” In reference to that film and to give an indication of just what Sam Raimi could bring I included a trailer to his first film, “The Evil Dead.” Just recently I read that the trailer for Fede […]
This trailer looks like ‘The Dark Knight’ of the Iron Man. And I have to say, I liked it. I also liked that there was no metal suit is sight when the Mandarin (though Ben Kingsley’s accent struck me as a bit odd) showed up and that Guy Pearce, in the little bit of time […]
I have so far seen all the Presidential, as well as the Vice-Presidential, Debates aired, and I don’t intend to miss the penultimate one. What I have noticed is that if you want consistency of streaming, I would stay away from YouTube, ABC, and NBC. That’s not to say that their performance has not improved […]
I imagine it’s hard to make a horror film involving war, because war in and of itself is such a horrific experience that there’s little that you can add to make it any worse, which is probably why there aren’t too many of them. In fact, for awhile Su-chang Kong’s “R-Point” and Michael J. Bassett’s […]
Here’s the latest teaser from “Iron Man 3,” and it looks different from those that came before because it seems to hint at dangers not only for Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), but Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) as well. There’s no hint of the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) though I hope that they avoid putting […]
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