I have never been a fan of remakes, mainly because they often serve no purpose other than money grabs, attempts to exploit the name of a property people are already familiar with. Which isn’t to say that they’re not some that manage to rise above – like Jean-François Richet’s remake of John Carpenter’s Assault On […]
On October 7th Hulu will premiere another attempt to interpret the work of Clive Barker with Books Of Blood (2020) and I’m not at all optimistic because I’ve seen The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Dread (2009) and Book Of Blood (2009) never mind the Hellraiser movies, of which only three or four are worth watching. […]
The first full-length trailer for Mike Flanagan’s second Netflix series, The Haunting Of Bly Manor – based on Henry James’ The Turn Of The Screw – dropped a few hours ago and it’s familiar and not-so-familiar at the same time. It’s familiar because visually it looks similar to The Haunting Of Hill House (2018) and […]
I recently rewatched David Lynch’s Dune because Denis Villeneuve’s reboot is coming soon and I wanted to refresh my mind about what came before as well as to see if I still thought that a reboot was a good idea. As far as the latter goes, I definitely think it isn’t though more on that […]
Maybe at this point I’ve become a bit jaded because Brandon Christensen’s Z shouldn’t work as well as it does. The movie starts out deceptively simple, sort of like The Bad Seed (1956) or The Good Son (1993) – stories revolving around murderous, psychotic children – then with barely the blink of an eye changes […]
Netflix’s Away isn’t anything you haven’t seen before – especially if you’ve seen Another Life just a year earlier – though it relies on a stronger supporting cast to get the crew of the Atlas to Mars than that the latter movie employed to get them somewhere (it’s been awhile since I saw Another Life. […]
The trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune dropped earlier today and it left me genuinely confused because I’m not quite sure who it’s supposed to appeal to. And it was a great, epic-looking trailer but I still don’t understand why it is that Hollywood feels the need to force movies based on Frank Herbert’s visionary sci-fi […]
As far as horror goes, the Western horror movie is in my opinion an underserved subgenre, which is odd when you take into account really good movies like Dead Birds (2004), The Burrowers (2008) and Bone Tomahawk (2015) are a part of it and if success breeds anything, it’s imitators (the “success” I’m referring to […]
David Marmor’s 1BR is a really cleverly written and directed movie that I’d recommend for anyone who thinks they’ve seen it all because while that’s technically true – there’s nothing in 1BR that you haven’t seen before – it’s put together so cleverly that it might be awhile before you notice it. Though what I […]
The second trailer for No Time To Die, the 25th movie in the James Bond series and the last for current Bond Daniel Craig, dropped earlier today and it raises more questions than it answers. 2015’s Spectre was gorgeous, but bloated, the opposite of this interpretation of Ian Fleming’s super spy. So, No Time To […]
