Oliver Stone is a somewhat uneven director, though when he gets it right, as “Platoon” and “Wall Street” illustrate, he’s capable of great things. I haven’t seen “Natural Born Killers” in a while, but I recall it feeling like a bit of a knock-off of Quentin Tarantino’s style (which makes sense, since he wrote the […]
Video from the new Disney XD series “Tron: Uprising.” Thanks to the guys at Aintitcool for the heads up.
“If you don’t go into “Cabin In The Woods” expecting the best thing since “The Exorcist,” then you’ll definitely enjoy yourself.” Vulture says that Drew Goddard’s “Cabin In The Woods,” is a “teen slasher movie that redefines the horror genre.” It’s not necessarily what I would call a teen slasher flick, since none of the […]
Here’s the trailer for the upcoming “Amazing Spider-Man” video game that’s based upon Marc Webb’s upcoming feature. I like the Iguana character, though I am not sure that’s he’s actually a part of Spider-Man’s mythology (according to Wikipedia, there is indeed a character called the Iguana, and he’s linked to the Lizard). That being said […]
If you have been watching the news in the past few months, you might have stumbled upon Kirk Cameron airing his views about homosexuals. Now, whether or not you agree with him, it it’s nice to see some pushback from some other former child actors. The acronym that ‘Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron’ also fits […]
Rian Johnson‘s followup to”The Brothers Bloom” has arrived, and it appears–for a movie that revolves around time travel–to be surprisingly light on special effects. Time travel movies, those that attempt to be faithful to the possibility, are oftentimes too mired in the science to be very entertaining. A fate suffered by 2004’s Primer; though when […]
I am not a huge fan of Joss Whedon’s “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer”–which is interesting, because I think that the movie it was based upon was, on the whole, a lot more fun. One reason is that it shares a vampire master with the remake of “Salem’s Lot,” (which is so much better than Tobe […]
Gary Ross will definitely not be returning to direct “Catching Fire,” the sequel to “The Hunger Games,” that has so far earned over $300 million domestically, and almost $160 million overseas. This isn’t necessarily a problem because Catherine Hardwicke didn’t return to the ‘Twilight’ films, and they went on to break records worldwide. George Lucas […]
Didn’t Luc Besson retire? If so, he has an odd way of showing it because a new film, Lockout, was not only executive produced by him but the screenplay that he helped write was based upon his idea. It doesn’t look like anything that we haven’t seen before, if the trailer is any indicator, though […]
As much as I hate to correct a blog entry that’s generating massive (for me) amounts of hits, I have to do what I have to do: My entry for “Van Helsing 2,” a sequel to a film that’s better off forgotten, doesn’t exist and was actually “Solomon Kane,” the video of which I have […]
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