Let me start by saying that Ryan Reynolds seems to be an affable, charismatic actor, whom I enjoyed watching in films like 2005’s “Just Friends” or the more recent “Safe House.” Heck, he even was interesting in last year’s “Green Lantern.” The problem is that I am not entirely sure that Reynolds can headline a […]
Is “Shark Night 3D” better than the Steven Spielberg classic, “Jaws,” the film that single-handedly make millions afraid to go into the water? No. In fact, it’s not even close. “Jaws” is a better film by just about any metric you could use to measure such things. For those that haven’t seen David Ellis’ “Shark […]
“Prometheus” is a masterful bit of film making by Ridley Scott (review coming soon), though watching it, I kept noticing something that bothered me; a something which is shared by virtually all the ‘Alien’ films. The crux of the problem is that we, humanity, in these films are able to create synthetic life (though if […]
Guillermo Del Toro seems so concerned about Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” being similar to his (aborted?) version of H.P. Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains Of Madness,” that he appears to be considering abandoning what would be his passion project, a film that he has literally worked years to bring to the screen. What I have to say […]
Ray Bradbury, writer of novels like “The Martian Chronicles,” “Farenheit 451,” The Illustrated Man,” Something Wicked This Way Comes,” and many others, died today. He resides among the pantheon of my favorite writers because there was a something, a quality about his work that made it accessible, and somehow more possible than the worlds of […]
Since Marvel flirted with bankruptcy a while ago, various studios have taken a stab at their characters, with varying degrees of success. Some, like Spider-Man or The X-Men, have been unequivocal successes, while others, like 2003’s “Hulk,” and the “The Fantastic Four” were profitable, though not nearly as successful. So, why do studios keep making […]
I am posting this because I am reasonably sure that there are enough fans of Bioware‘s “Dragon Age” video game that a trailer of the upcoming CGI-based film would interest them. Bioware also happens to be the studio that makes the ‘Mass Effect’ series of video games. That being said, I am not a huge […]
While it’s not good form to revel in the misfortune of others (which pretty much means that I am about to do just that) I have to admit that hearing that Peter Berg’s “Battleship” looking very John Carter-ish makes me feel a bit better than it should. First, it means that “The Avengers” continues to […]
A few weeks ago a co-worker and I were discussing the Daniel Espinosa’s “Safe House,” which we both liked, though he raised a point that I probably would have noticed if the film weren’t as entertaining as it ended up being. That point he made was that the central premise of the film, that Denzel […]
Forty-eight frames per second, a measurement that’s meaningless to most of us–including me. I don’t quite understand how it’s supposedly such a game changer–yet to men like Peter Jackson, Douglas Trumball or James Cameron, it represents the future of movies. Currently, films are shown at 24 fps, and increasing the frame rate will supposedly create […]
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