I had fairly high hopes for John Woo’s Silent Night, though it never managed to rise above being a movie based on a gimmick (a modern movie – almost – entirely without dialog). The idea is interesting though the way the movie goes about doing it is really odd in that Brian Godlock (Joel Kinnaman) […]
Let’s be clear, I’m looking forward to catching Zach Snyder’s Rebel Moon and am jazzed to learn that it’s premiering a day earlier – the 21st instead of the 22nd – though I’m not expecting much because it’s based on an idea created by Snyder himself. Though let’s back up for a moment. What was […]
Yes, it is. The inciting incident of the chaos at the heart of the movie is the escape of a genetically engineered dinosaur, Indominus Rex (and speaking of dinosaurs how is it that they don’t look as convincing as those from the original movie, which came out 15 years earlier) which escapes its enclosure and […]
Split Second is a curious movie in that despite it’s formula – cop faces off against a murderous enemy that turns up every few years to kill – being a fairly standard one that worked particularly well in movies like Predator (1987) yet doesn’t work here. I think a lot of the problem comes down […]
The trailer for 65 dropped earlier this week and it looked – at least initially – pretty impressive as Adam Driver plays a pilot who’s spaceship, which happens to be transporting 35 people for reasons that aren’t revealed, is disabled by an asteroid, and falls to Earth. Surviving the crash, he has to not manage […]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bassam Tariq is no longer helming Marvel Studios’ reboot of Blade. Interestingly, an actual reason was given him leaving the project (a scheduling conflict, which likely had to do with meeting the November 23, 2023 release date, as opposed to the virtually meaningless ‘creative differences’). Though one sign that Tariq […]
As you can probably guess from that title, I’m not a fan of the John Wick movies. I’ve seen two thus far (and part of the first) – John Wick: Chapter 2 and John Wick – Chapter 3: Parabellum – and they’re all about the action set pieces. Which is fine though the problem I […]
I remember watching He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1985) as a young person, and at the time I really enjoyed it. Though it hasn’t aged particularly well. And that’s to be expected when you’re dealing with characters designed to appeal mainly to young boys, with names like Stinkor (a skunk-man), Triclops (a man […]
Remember Judge Dredd (1995), when Sylvester Stallone took off his helmet and screamed (for what was for not the first time in the movie) “I AM THE LAW!” It was certainly memorable (for all the wrong reasons) but what what it was also wasn’t Judge Dredd, a character who in the comics never once revealed […]
Remember Birds of Prey – or as it later came to be (ridiculously and somewhat pretentiously) called, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn? That movie underwhelmed at the box office, earning just over $200 million worldwide – which would be a triumph if it were more moderately-budgeted. Though one that […]
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