I didn’t hate Michael Cuesta’s American Assassin though I didn’t like it either. The movie is well-shot and cast with great actors like David Suchet, Michael Keaton, Scott Adkins and Sanaa Lathan and yet somehow manages to fall apart, particularly in the third act, which replaces some interesting human drama with James Bond-ish antics. Though […]
Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep–the sequel to The Shining–is a great movie. I try not to to be hyperbolic in my praise but it’s pretty remarkable. It somehow manages to pull off taking everything good about Kubrick’s movie and revisiting it in a way that feels new and original. And something that has to be commented […]
Which I mention because after 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story I thought that the mediocre experience Edwards seemingly had making the movie drove him from Hollywood all together. It wouldn’t be the first time. Stephen Norrington quit movie making after the terrible time he had directing 2003’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Apparently […]
This is amazing news! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sam Raimi is in talks to take over Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness from Scott Derrickson, who stepped down earlier this year due to ‘creative differences.’ Now, I don’t think that Derrickson got to show what he could bring to the franchise with the […]
This is an odd one because when I learned the title of the latest Saw movie was Spiral: From The Book Of Saw I got vaguely biblical vibes (that’s why in my reaction I kept saying ‘Saul’ instead of ‘Saw’), which considering the subject matter is virtually sacrilegious. Spiral is a reboot of a franchise […]
Pledge is a fascinating movie that works on numerous levels though what I didn’t mention in my video review was that the movie acts as a commentary on the meanness, the brutality of capitalism too as people literally kill each other to jockey for an economic position over the other person. Pledge was directed by […]
Vivarium was directed by Lorcan Finnegan, and he happens to be a director I’m familiar with, having seen his 2016 movie, Without Name. Speaking of Without Name, it was okay though the concept when all is said and done was more interesting than the execution. Now Vivarium…this looks interesting! It reminds me vaguely of The […]
Nicholas McCarthy’s The Prodigy is a much better movie than I expected it to be, though having seen his 2012 movie The Pact it shouldn’t have surprised me too much. What does is, when its all said and done, how derivative The Prodigy is of Richard Donner’s 1976 The Omen, except on a smaller scale. […]
Like assholes, likely everyone has an opinion…as to why Ava DuVernay is directing New Gods for DC Films. What brought this line of inquiry to mind was the a story from Comicbooknews about DuVernay directing a show called DMZ (starring the breathtaking Rosario Dawson). The last big-budget feature she directed was Disney’s A Wrinkle In […]
Xavier Gens’ Cold Skin is a fascinating movie about the evil that resides within us all though what it isn’t is Lovecraftian (a term used most often, I’ve noticed, by people who have never actually read Lovecraft). The movie revolves around a weather observer during World War I, who’s stationed on a remote island for […]
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