I like that idea that there are all sorts of movies out there–between major studios releases and more art-house fare–that there’re options no matter what your tastes happen to be. This is a good thing because I don’t know who the audience is for Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman though what I do know is that it’s not […]
Hell Fest is not a good movie. It’s seemingly a throwback to 1980’s slasher films–not a bad thing in and of itself, Hereditary, released earlier this month, is itself a throwback to movies like Rosemary’s Baby–but where Hell Fest goes wrong is that it’s a throwback to the worse tendencies of slasher movies, with archetypes […]
At some point in your life you’ve likely had people say to you that ‘the glass is half full’ or ‘things can always get better.’ Then again, those same people had probably never seen The Predator because otherwise it just might cause them to question their optimism, if only a little bit. I bring it […]
Let’s start by being honest: I can’t stand what Fox is doing with the X-Men just as much as I can’t stand when Sony–when left to their own devices–tends to end up doing with Spider-Man. Which is ruining them. And before you bring up Deadpool, that movie was an aberration and something that if the […]
This is a damn clever trailer. It’s literally a study in contrasts, and the misinterpretation of said contrasts. Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), known to the criminal underworld as the Kingpin, dresses in a snazzy white suit and an apartment so monochromatic that it looks like it’s adjacent to an Apple Store while his opposite–you don’t […]
You might have heard that Warner Bros is making a movie based on Batman’s arch nemesis, the Joker. Now here’s the punch line: This version of the Joker exists entirely outside of DC continuity! Now keep in mind the DCEU (the DC Cinematic Universe) has a version of the Joker, and he was introduced in […]
When you were a child and the first time you saw a bee and chased after it, because that’s what children do–or maybe pulled a dog’s tail–you had no real idea what was going or happen, though you likely learned from that initial (potentially painful) experience. That in a nutshell is how I feel about […]
The trailer for Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill House dropped a few days ago and while I really enjoyed the teaser I was a bit underwhelmed by the trailer. Reason being, it throws too much at the screen and feels chaotic and less supernatural than dramatic, while the teaser was more focused on minimalism and […]
I caught The VVitch this weekend–it was either that or Interstellar and having recently sat through Blade Runner 2049 I was not at the moment up to sitting through another 2 hour sci-fi epic. Was it worth it? Besides saving about a half hour The VVitch is a pretty good movie though I think of it as […]
Few things bother me more than the way the term ‘Lovecraftian’ is bandied about because more often than not I get the feeling that those that do so have never read anything by H.P. Lovecraft in their lives. And sure, most of the time the short stories and novels revolve around things that go bump […]
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