Michael Bay is rebooting the Transformers franchise, with Mark Wahlberg replacing Shia LaBeouf, though I am not entirely sure the casting change will make a whit of difference. That’s a pity because, if another director were to take the helm, it’s quite possible that we would get something new and engaging this time around. And […]
Many movies, to compete in a very competitive market, market their films in ways that go beyond the traditional. For instance, for 2010’s “Tron: Legacy” the makers of the film had a campaign that led the inquisitive to FlynnLives.com and as a reward let them see a light cycle before the general public. I don’t want […]
If you have not seen “American Horror Story,” or “The Sentinel” but want to with an open mind–or just hate spoilers–read no further. I have been watching the first season of Ryan Murphy’s and Brad Falchuk’s “American Horror Story” recently, and while I have been enjoying it–despite its tendency to be very emotionally overwrought–I have come to notice […]
The last I had heard of Steven Soderbergh, the director of “Sex, Lies & Videotape,” “Traffic,” the ‘Ocean’ films, and more recently, 2011’s “Contagion,” was that he had retired. I guess success (of a box office nature) changes a person because Soderberg’s last film, “Magic Mike,” was huge (made on a budget of $7 million, […]
Superherohype is saying that Kevin Feige, Robert Downey, Jr., and Shane Black, the director of the film, are saying that the upcoming “Iron Man 3” will not be a “serious” movie. Feige, Downey and Black are closer to the production than I am (by an almost indescribable degree), so I think that we can take […]
I like quite a few of the films that John Coscarelli has done, particularly “Phantasm,” but that’s almost a given. That being said, I really do want to see his version of James Wong’s novel. In fact I have been wanting to see this movie for at least five or six months, every since I […]
According to Deadline, Shonda Rimes is producing a scifi television series, a move that’s just a bit outside her comfort zone of relationship dramas, and interesting in and of itself. That being said, what’s even more interesting is that David DiGilio is writing it. DiGilio is the guy that was chosen by Disney to write […]
I like Joss Whedon (which is a little odd–and mildly creepy–since I have never met the man). He not only can direct kick-arse action films (“Serenity,” “The Avengers”) but he also has this snarky way toward responding to events around him that’s refreshing, especially in these days of self-important commentators that are more about telling […]
Here’s “The Evil Dead” Red Band trailer, and it is so NOT SAFE FOR WORK–unless you work in a slaughterhouse, or perhaps in a hospital trauma unit, where so much blood, gore, and self-mutilation would not be so beyond the pale. I mean, I am not one to shy away from copious amounts of the […]
Timing is always an interesting thing. On the seventeenth, I inquired about Sam Raimi rebooting Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist.” In reference to that film and to give an indication of just what Sam Raimi could bring I included a trailer to his first film, “The Evil Dead.” Just recently I read that the trailer for Fede […]
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