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 […]
I really enjoyed the first volume of Netflix’s Love, Death + Robots, though that’s not to say that there weren’t problems. The biggest being that it consisted of 18(!) episodes, which inevitably means that you’re going to get a few clunkers like When the Yoghurt Took Over and Alternate Histories. Some were okay: The Witness […]
I really liked this trailer. Because The Purge (2013), the first movie in the series, was a simple home invasion thriller, albeit one with a political aspect, though originally was more a reason for the home invasion scenario to exist than anything else. Though with later movies in the series the idea of one day […]
No one can every accuse Netflix of not investing money in their movies and series because Things Heard & Seen is gorgeous and gorgeously shot (by Director of Photography Larry Smith). It’s also particularly well-acted (Amanda Seyfried and James Norton bring more gravitas to the material than it deserves) though because we can’t have nice […]
The trailer dropped for Venom: Let There Be Carnage yesterday and if you liked Venom (2018) you’ll probably feel at home with the upcoming sequel (though who knows? It’s not unusual for clips in trailers to have scenes that were cut for reasons of timing reasons or whatever). So you never actually know what you’re […]
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