Walter Hill’s “The Warriors” has always been a favorite film of mine. It manages to hold up pretty well, despite being made in 1979. Part of what makes it so durable is that the story is essentially a simple one, which is a gang from Coney Island comes to Manhattan for a big meeting, attended […]
This is interesting news! According to Deadline, Duncan Jones, director of “Moon” and “Source Code,” will be directing a movie based upon Activision Blizzard’s MMORPG (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game) “World of Warcraft.” I am of two minds about this: While it’s good that Jones will be working with a larger palate than his […]
““Mama” is an auspicious debut from Andrés (Andy) Muschietti that gets much more right than wrong.” Andy Muschietti’s “Mama” is a bit of a throwback to an era when horror films aimed not to disgust, but to scare and frighten. It was a time when most of the violence was implied, yet somehow was more effective than […]
As far as I am aware, this image is from James Mangold’s upcoming “The Wolverine.” I know the image is from the back, but from what I can tell it looks remarkably faithful to the comic character.
It seems that I am not the only one with mother issues because the Guillermo Del Toro produced horror film, “Mama,” has already earned $10 million Friday, and is on track to add another $20 million by the end of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Unfortunately, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, “The Last Stand” seems to be […]
The second trailer for Fede Alvarez’s reboot of Sam Raimi’s the “Evil Dead” came out a few days ago, and it goes without saying that it’s not exactly safe for work. Or children. Or anyone bothered by violence bordering on sadism. That being said, it’s hard to tell from the trailer if the reboot offers […]
This morning, I decided to see how much Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” cost to produce. Box Office Mojo didn’t list its production costs, but with a modicum of searching I learned that the budget was probably around $250 million (most of which you can see on screen). Now, my whining comes in […]
“The Journey May Be Unexpected, But Beautiful Vistas, Interesting Challenges, And Humor In The Oddest Of Places Make The Journey More Than Worthwhile.” A few hours ago I got back from seeing Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” An Unexpected Journey” at 48 fps (frames per second) and 3D, and I have to say that the faster […]
I have heard some people complain that the Smith children–Jaden and Willow in particular–are (so far) largely beneficiaries of their parents’ success. I say: So what. Hell, if my dad were, let’s say Stephen R. Donaldson (the creator of “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,” The Gap Saga, among many others) and he offered me the […]
When I read that Guillmero Del Toro was abandoning his passion project, a movie based upon H.P. Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains Of Madness” partially because Universal decided that a movie like “Battleship” would be a better investment (that’s not quite fair. I have no idea if Universal financing “Battleship” had anything to do with them […]
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