Are We Getting The Real Story As Far As The Fantastic Four Returning To Marvel Studios Goes?
Or Are Both Marvel Studios And Fox Playing Coy?
Or Are Both Marvel Studios And Fox Playing Coy?
I honestly wanted to like the Paranormal Activity movies. After all, there are slim pickings for horror movies at the best of times, yet the PA films are less fully-resized movies than an accumulation of jump scares that last for an hour or so. And maybe that’s not fair, but the filmmakers have had every […]
Marvel Studios is getting something for licensing the rights for Fox to make two X-Men television series. Here’s what I think it is.
When Guillermo del Toro says that his latest movie, Crimson Peak, isn’t a horror movie, but a gothic romance, he means it. A gothic romance is a type of movie that, while horror-adjacent, visually, beckons back to movies like The Innocents, where elaborate costumes and sets help to set the mood and atmosphere. And like Jack Clayton’s 1961 movie, […]
It this doesn’t give you a nerd boner–or the female equivalent–then get medical help.
On the whole, I enjoyed the first two seasons of Netflix’s Hemlock Grove,
Despite being an avid comic reader, prior to Netflix’s Jessica Jones I barely knew anything about the character. I still don’t but I like the way–if the teasers are any indication–where it’s going. Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a political thriller, Guardians Of The Galaxy was Marvel’s interpretation of a space opera. Daredevil (Netflix’s version) […]
The Stranger reminds me of Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, except not nearly as gripping.
People, typically idiots with something to prove, like to talk about how things are equal between mean and women.
From the time that I could read, science fiction and fantasy were my mediums of choice. (Horror–with a vengeance–came later). From Edmund Cooper (The Overman Culture–the first book I am aware of reading with a gay protagonist–, Seahorse In The Sky) to Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Earthsea novels, etc) and a […]