I like nothing better than a good werewolf movie though it’s probably one of the most difficult horror sub-genres to get right in that it’s so FX-dependent. And sure, there’re ways you can get around showing a lycanthrope, but that only goes so far because I watch werewolf movies to see werewolves (at some point) […]
Remember Judge Dredd (1995), when Sylvester Stallone took off his helmet and screamed (for what was for not the first time in the movie) “I AM THE LAW!” It was certainly memorable (for all the wrong reasons) but what what it was also wasn’t Judge Dredd, a character who in the comics never once revealed […]
I know the idea of ‘aggressive mediocrity’ is somewhat contradictory in that mediocrity is almost by definition milquetoast and lacking in passion, but there’s no other way I can find to describe James Wan’s The Conjuring 2. The original movie was one of those horror movies that was so risk-adverse that (much to no one’s […]
In the name of full disclosure I have to admit that I don’t recall having seen a full episode of DC Universe’s – I mean HBOMax’s – Titans, based on the characters introduced in the Teen Titans comic. Though that’s not because I didn’t try, but because the show is so murky that it doesn’t […]
Remember Birds of Prey – or as it later came to be (ridiculously and somewhat pretentiously) called, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn? That movie underwhelmed at the box office, earning just over $200 million worldwide – which would be a triumph if it were more moderately-budgeted. Though one that […]
I was particularly impressed by Ole Bornedal’s The Possession (2012), so much so that in my review I mentioned how much I preferred it to the horror of James Wan’s movies, The Conjuring in particular. There was a problem though, namely I haven’t seen it in quite awhile, so I was comparing Bornedal’s movie to […]
I haven’t seen Masters of the Universe: Revelation because it hasn’t yet been released though it’s got Kevin Smith written all over the teaser. 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 to […]
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 […]
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