I reviewed 2011’s The Green Hornet and while I thought it wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t faithful enough to the television series it was based on (which ran from 1966-1967 and was a spinoff of Batman, which was cancelled a year later). The problem by my reckoning was more due to the writing by Seth Rogen […]
I really like the world that cable was supposed to bring us, namely a gazillion channels, each dedicated to one particular, niche thing. If your thing is horror, there’s a channel for you! If you’re into home repair, we’ve got you covered! Literally a channel for every interest, except not really because cable channels require […]
Last week the trailer dropped for Black Adam, the latest movie from DC Films and it’s amazing, though not for the reasons you might think. It manages to steal iconic moments from various Marvel movie trailers in such a way that’s so blatant that there’s something pretty remarkable – never mind shameless – about it. […]
Watching recent sequels/reboots of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre you’d think that the original film was akin to Halloween or Friday the 13th, with a lone stalker haunting down nubile young teenagers – who really aren’t – and it isn’t. And in fact, I’m not entirely sure what kind of movie Hooper was trying to […]
I I get the feeling that a lot of people may not liked the fate of the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) but one has to admit she was all sorts of awesome in the movie. From her introduction in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – though […]
Apparently Netflix’s Stranger Things 4 suffered a promotional mishap when a Monopoly game based on the series revealed major plot points for the upcoming season. And while that isn’t good for anybody, who’s still watching this show!? As far as I’m concerned it lost steam after its second season never mind the insanity of each […]
While I enjoyed 2016’s Doctor Strange I wish that it had been…well…weirder. And to be fair there was quite a burden on director Scott Derrickson’s shoulders, namely now to introduce a character that’s amongst the weirdest in Marvel’s stable, but do so in a manner that doesn’t turn off people who’re grown accustomed to their […]
As if we needed any more evidence that Warner Bros is mismanaging DC Films: A Doctor Strange movie has out-opened Batman, $185 million vs $135 million, after its three-day premiere (from Friday through Sunday). Doctor Strange, a character most people have never heard of prior to his 2016 movie, has out-opened literally one of the […]
According to Box Office Mojo, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore earned just over $334 million worldwide, which is a lot of money till you take into account that it cost $200 million to produce, which makes it a failure, box office-wise (what I like to think of as ‘soft’ failure, in that there’s clearly […]
I’ve been working through a respiratory infection – it isn’t COVID though I imagine it’s just as unpleasant – though I’m trying to get back up to speed and this is as good a place as any to start. You might have heard recently that storied actor Frank Langella was recently fired from Netlflix’s The […]
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