This trailer bothers me. Not because it’s bad–in fact, it works better than many. No, what bothers me is that The Current War is based upon actual events, and movies are TERRIBLE when it comes to depicting real events with any sort of integrity. And that’s a problem because most Americans act as if they’re […]
Keep in mind I enjoyed reading Frank Herbert’s Dune. Heck, I even enjoyed David Lynch’s 1984 interpretation (as fascinating as it was, it wasn’t Dune; too nihilistic, too ugly). So why am I pessimistic? Dune is ambitious, BIG storytelling though the problem is that I am not sure there’s an audience for it large enough […]
If anyone had told me that there was a movie being released based on the 1968 television show I would have laughed because there’s no way today’s Internet-savvy children would get into for a bunch of guys running around like idiots in costumes. Then if you had added that it would be a horror/comedy I […]
Gene Blalock’s The Nightmare Gallery is an interesting horror film that follows in the footsteps of movies like John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness and Jacob’s Ladder, except not nearly as interestingly as either of those movies. Part of the issue is the narrative, which is a bit muddled. Another is that the movie’s […]
A day or two ago the trailer for the latest season of Netflix’s Stranger Things franchise, Stranger Things 3, dropped and it looks…fine. Not great, and definitely NOT an event though that’s okay in the sense that not everything has to be an event and there should be room for smaller-scale things as well. Which […]
I like this trailer. As I have said before: Black humor is the best humor. I don’t tend to enjoy Three Stooges-type antics–unless we’re actually talking about The Three Stooges, who are AWESOME!–but humor based on manners, on quirks in typical behaviors? That’s my JAM! This trailer for Ready Or Not looks like it’s just […]
Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother is a pretty interesting entry into the world of Dystopian science-fiction, which typically depicts a world that has been devastated by the neglect of humans. It sort of stumbles in the third act–which doesn’t quite make sense based on everything that’s come before–but it still remains watchable. What’s particularly noteworthy […]
The official trailer for Marvel’s Jessica Jones dropped a few days ago and it’s pretty good though the problem is that going in you know that this is the last season (and if you didn’t before reading this, you do now). No matter how good the third and final season is it’s going to end; […]
The trailer for the Square Enix video game Avengers: A-Day dropped a little while ago and while the CG is actually pretty decent–despite residing comfortably in the uncanny valley–the script appears really, really not so good in the sense that they don’t appear to get the characters right. For instance Iron Man/Tony Stark sounds almost […]
Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City (1993), as far as I’m concerned, was a high-water mark as far as serialized adaptations go. At times funny, sad and beautiful; sometimes all within the same moment. So you can imagine so when I learned that Netflix was picking up the torch (I don’t know if it’s a […]
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