Mainly because I think I have a good idea of what Marvel Studios is looking for. While Scott Derrickson is leaving the project, he’s staying on as Executive Producer, which implies an amicable parting with Marvel. Now, the title ‘Executive Producer’ is potentially as meaningless as “creative differences” but assuming that relations between the director […]
Babak Anvari was a new quantity to me before I saw Wounds on Hulu, and having seen it, this guy is going to go far. Wounds is a story about a bartender named Will (Armie Hammer) who moves aimlessly though life but there’s a destiny waiting him, and it’s a horrific one. Wounds is more […]
Remember 2018’s A Quiet Place? The movie that–albeit indirectly–brought us Netflix’s Bird Box as well as The Silence? It cost $17 million to produce and earned almost $341 million. There’s no way that it wasn’t getting a sequel though was the original as good as a lot of people seem to think? I’d have to […]
Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo Suspiria is a movie that can’t be accused of copying the original, because it’s way too ambitious for that. And the problem–you know it was coming–is that the original movie was relatively simple: namely a horror movie that revolved around a dance academy. Guadagnino doesn’t neglect that […]
Why does this movie exist? And why is it co-written by Gil Kenan, the same person who graced us with the remake of Poltergeist–another movie that had no reason to be? Say what you will about Ghostbusters 2016, that movie at least had something to say. You may not have agreed with it, but it […]
Most remakes are pointless, though there are instances they offer something the original didn’t. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch’s remake of Pet Sematary is definitely the former. That it’s so similar to the 1989 movie–directed by Mary Lambert–which makes sense since they’re both based on the same source material. This leads to the question: Why […]
I didn’t hate David F. Sandberg’s Shazam!, nor did I particularly like it. My greatest problem with the movie–and they’re quite a few–is that the it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Is it a horror movie? Is it a movie geared toward young people? I couldn’t tell, which makes me think […]
M. Night Shyamalan is fascinating. As I say in the video below he’s one of those persons who seems to fail upward, defying both gravity and common sense. Remember, there was a time when this dude was the toast of Hollywood, before his ego grew too massive to be contained (considering I’m talking about Hollywood […]
Michael Bay isn’t what I call a subtle director, and nothing about the ‘Visit Italy’ trailer for his upcoming 6 Underground indicates that that’s a mistaken impression. And that’s the problem because–at least for me–Bay being Bay isn’t terribly interesting. What is is that he’s working with Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick (Zombieland, Deadpool, Deadpool 2) […]
Yimou Zhang’s Shadow is a remarkable bit of filmmaking. The movie revolves around two kingdoms on the precipice of war, and the political intrigues that come about. That doesn’t sound like much, but as executed by Zhang, it’s pretty remarkable stuff. And did I mention the entire movie is rendered in shades of white, black […]
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