When I went to catch Alien: Covenant last Sunday (review coming soon!) I saw a poster for a movie called Polaroid. Polaroid cameras in general would be an interesting way for evil to spread after all there’s something mildly disturbing about watching an image appear–almost ghostlike–when there had prior been nothing. One of the original trailers […]
There something comforting about an Agatha Christie mystery, though I have never tried to quantify why. Before now, that is. I think that what drew me to them originally was the logical way the stories were constructed and the way the mystery unfolded. Typically you put a group of strangers in a situation where there’s […]
Patty Jenkins’ upcoming Wonder Woman feature has a quality that’s shared with no other recent movie bearing the DC logo (and it’s not an opening projection that’s projected somewhere in the ballpark of $175 million worldwide). The quality in question is its Rotten Tomatoes score. According to the aggregator the movie has amassed a 97 […]
The trailer for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is almost impossibly gorgeous, but seeing that Besson’s was also the director of The Fifth Element that was never an aspect of his filmmaking I was concerned about. Never having read the comic the movie is based upon, I will just have […]
Cutting an effective trailer is a strange mix of art and science and too much of either can ruin it. And they’re more important than you think. Part of what saved Suicide Squad was the trailer, which (unfortunatel) made promises the movie itself didn’t quite live up to, was so well-received by movie goers. By […]
I don’t consider myself to be a cynical person, nor am I prone to conspiratorial thinking–though the ‘Single-bullet theory’ is so nonsensical you’d have to be an idiot to take it seriously–so, while I avoid looking at the world through rose-colored lenses, things aren’t all gloom and doom either. So, when I heard that Zach […]
Wow, can’t say that this didn’t surprise me. Jim Henson’s 1982 fantasy The Dark Crystal was always sort of an odd duck. Too creepy for younger viewers, too ‘YA’ for older audiences, I get the feeling that it never quite connected with its intended audience. So 35 years later, there’s the sequel, The Dark Crystal: Age […]
The trailer for CBS All Access’s upcoming Star Trek: Discovery is absolutely gorgeous, though design-wise appears to borrow too much from J.J. Abrams’ reboot. And I wish I were just talking about the lens flares. No, what I mean is this… The being above is–believe it or not–a Klingon and if you have seen Gene […]
The Gifted is the second series begat from the deal between Marvel Entertainment and Fox and it’s curiously conventional-looking, especially compared to Legion (the first series launched on sister channel, FX). That aforementioned conventionality may have a lot to do with it being directed by Bryan Singer, who helmed many of the X-Men movies, and contributed […]
If there were an award for Most Improved Television Series, the likelihood is high that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be a contender, if not the winner. It started life not sure what it wanted to be, and seemed to survive primary on the strength of Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) who’s character had seemingly died […]
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