Can Michael Bay make a movie where buildings aren’t being pulverized? As a child was he almost hit by a piece of falling masonry, forever embittering him against buildings and their ilk? I didn’t see “Pain & Gain” but I have to wonder if any were destroyed in that film too. Though Bay only produced “Teenage Mutant […]
Remember the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare? In the story a tortoise races a hare, which under normal conditions can easily expected to beat such a slow-moving animal. Though because the hare rests on its laurels, the tortoise is given an opportunity to not only catch up to it, but eventually win the race. It won because […]
The title is growing on me, though I still prefer what it was going to be called originally, which was “All You Need Is Kill.”
I am not terribly easy to please when it comes to real-world interpretations of superheroes that I have followed since I was a kid. Then again, I also understand that costume designers have quite a balancing act to maintain. Sometimes, they cannot be too literal, because it would mean spandex, and virtually no one looks […]
Welcome to “Postmortem,” a feature that goes behind the scenes of some of your favorite films, and asks: What the heck went wrong?! Paul W.S. Anderson (the Resident Evil films, “Soldier,” Event Horizon,” “Pompeii”), if you’ve ever seen him in a interview, like the one above, appears very knowledgable about the films he chooses to […]
Better. Finally we’re getting a feel for what the X-Men are up against. A plus is that we’re getting a look at the man-sized Sentinels; a minus is that we’re not seeing the plus-sized version (except for one shot from the back).
“What Makes A Man, A Man? What makes a man, a man? I have always though that one of the most important differentiators between the sexes are based upon the genitalia: Men have a penis, and women have a vagina. Simple, and easy to understand. But there are people that such easy definitions don’t apply, […]
While I can’t speak for anyone else, Charles Schulz‘s “Peanuts” have always had a comforting quality to me. They weren’t cartoons that I enjoyed on a regular basis, but the holidays, particularly Thanksgiving, were made for them. They also had this oddly melancholy character about them that was interesting and unlike anything else. I have […]
“Irrelevant Details Mar What Could Have Been A Been An Excellent Example Of The ‘Body Horror’ Genre.” Eric England‘s “Contracted” isn’t a bad movie by any stretch. It looks good, is well-acted, and competently shot. It’s also damned irritating. “Contracted” is in the vein of David Cronenberg‘s ‘Body Horror’ films, such as “Scanners,” “Videodrome” and […]
Remember when I said that Robert Stromberg’s “Maleficent” is going to fail? I still believe that to be the case, though I have to admit that I like the most recent trailer. In it get a little more information as to why she’s evil, as well as watching her raise an army from what look […]
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