I haven’t seen Masters of the Universe: Revelation because it hasn’t yet been released though it’s got Kevin Smith written all of the teaser trailer. Smith, the director of movies like Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Red State (2011), Tusk (2014), etc., is a child at heart, seemingly making him a perfect choice […]
Netflix earlier today dropped the official trailer for Fear Street, a trilogy of films based on the novels – Young Adult, I believe – of R.L. Stine and while I’m not particularly enamored of way the adverts seem to be implying that they’re perhaps way too similar to American Horror Story (an anthology series that […]
Let’s see if I understand…Netflix recently canceled Jupiter’s Legacy – how they make such decisions is not always clear in that Netflix is a subscription-based service so they’re not bound to ratings in the same way as traditional television networks. That being said, how many people watch a show over a indeterminate period of time […]
What’s arguably worse than shows that last way longer than they should, like Supernatural (2005-2020) or The X-Files (1993-2018) are those that end way before their time (Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975), Dark Matter (2015-2017) or Travelers (2016-2018)) because they’ve barely gotten their legs under them before they’re cancelled. Add Debris (2021) to that ignominious […]
I really enjoyed Ole Bornedal’s The Possession partially because he seems to recognize that you don’t need a gazillion dollars to craft an effective horror movie – as if The Blair Witch Project (1999) didn’t already make that abundantly clear, especially when you take into account that The Possession, at $14 million, is budget-wise closer […]
I just learned from The Hollywood Reporter than Netflix has cancelled Jupiter’s Legacy. And while I didn’t like the series as much as I did Travelers (also on Netflix, also cancelled – in my view – prematurely though it at least ran for two years and 34 episodes). The metrics that Netflix use to determine […]
I can’t speak for anyone else but I really enjoyed Slasher, the anthology horror series created by Aaron Martin, that I first discovered on Netflix (it’s in the vein of American Horror Story, except less seedy). Like AHS it tended to use some of the same actors from one season to the next – it […]
I haven’t seen any movies from Chloe Zhao (Nomadland, The Rider) though I have seen trailers and they’re typically intimate affairs with a visual scope that would not be out of place in a John Ford (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers) movie. Today a teaser trailer was dropped for the movie she’s […]
Can we be honest? No matter what you think about Justice League – I refuse to call it ‘Zach Snyder’s Justice League‘ though that’s the simplest way to tell it apart from the movie that Joss Whedon directed after Snyder left the project – Zach Snyder is just not a very good director. He has […]
I wouldn’t call 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra my favorite movie but it’s certainly watchable though the devil is in the details and that’s where it falls short. And among those details one of the most problematic was the fact that the lower section of Snake Eye’s mask was anatomically accurate. As you […]
