I’ll be totally honest. I enjoyed both Hellboy and it’s sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army so when I heard that Guillermo Del Toro wasn’t going forward with a planned third movie, I was a bit miffed. Though that turned to irritated really fast when I learned that, while Del Toro’s third film wasn’t happening, […]
André Øvredal’s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (The Autopsy Of Jane Doe) is a–for me–surprisingly effective horror anthology. And it’s worth mentioning that that screenplay and one of the producers comes courtesy of Guillermo Del Toro, which means that you’re going to get effects as practical as possible which is always a good […]
Amazon dropped the official trailer for their upcoming Carnival Row a few hours ago, and visually speaking it looks like vintage Guillermo Del Toro (the writer of Carnival Row, Travis Beacham, worked on Pacific Rim with Del Toro) though if you check IMDB the latter is credited with writing one episode of the series, despite–what […]
I haven’t heard of Toby Wilkins’ Splinter before recently–despite the movie coming out in 2008–and found myself pleasantly surprised because it’s really good! The movie revolves around a group of people under siege by an alien entity –and while it may have received a theatrical release I don’t remember it–and while it wears it’s influences […]
I not only genuinely enjoyed Ari Aster’s Midsommar–the followup to 2018’s Hereditary–but believe it to be a genuine horror movie, as opposed to what a lot of critics will tell you. Though I can see why people would be confused: the movie has a very documentary-type style which making nailing it down a bit difficult […]
While I’ve never been a believer in the idea of franchise fatigue as far as the Marvel Cinematic Universe goes I can see how people might get tired of anything if it becomes too commonplace. Which is almost the dictionary definition of Spider-Man as he’s appeared in feature films. After the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy […]
I have never been a fan of remakes though sometimes…sometimes they just work. For instance, John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing is a remake of Christian Nyby’s (with uncredited direction from Howard Hawks) The Thing From Another World or David Cronenberg’s 1986 movie The Fly, a remake of the 1958 original. Both are far better […]
This weekend–after taking advantage of a free month of Hulu–I caught Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain and it was pretty good which only fell short of remarkable because the fourth season felt truncated (According to shorrunner/director Carlton Cuse Del Toro actually had plans for a fifth season, which would have given what ended up being […]
2019’s Charlie’s Angels is a movie based upon the 1976 ABC series which spawned two movies in 2000 and 2003, both directed by McG (that’s not his name his parents gave him, which would be Joseph McGinty Nichol). This time around it’s being rebooted by Elizabeth Banks and while it appears more joyful and youthful […]
Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother is a pretty interesting entry into the world of Dystopian science-fiction, which typically depicts a world that has been devastated by the neglect of humans. It sort of stumbles in the third act–which doesn’t quite make sense based on everything that’s come before–but it still remains watchable. What’s particularly noteworthy […]
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