The trailer of Spider-Man: Far From Home dropped this morning, and it’s glorious. There’s a bit too much Iron Spider for my liking–I don’t necessarily mind an Iron Man-ized Spider-Man, but it’s not exactly my favorite thing. That being said, we learn more about Quentin Beck, otherwise known as Mysterio, about how he came to […]
I know, I know, recording clean audio is my current bête noire. It’s something I’m working on but the thing about sound recording is that where you are is where you are. You can’t reduce ambient sound in an area–because I’m not Doctor Strange–and have to deal with what I have. So until the lavaliere […]
What is it with Alien movies? The feature films can’t seem to remain faithful to their underlying ideas and mythology, so why should I expect shorts based on said movies to be any different? And Alien: Alone proves my point. The concept is interesting, but it takes too many liberties with the source material. It’s […]
Why does this thing exist (beyond a cynical money grab, that is) like, at all? This reboot appears to be a carbon copy of the original movie, with the exception that “Chucky” is now “Buddi”– what’s with the “i” anyway?–and is powered by AI (artificial intelligence) instead of Vodou. Heck, he still SOUNDS LIKE BRAD […]
This looks pretty good. While good horror movies aren’t as hard to come by has they have been in the (recent) past, we can’t rest on our laurels because when the studios find a format they can do cheaply as possible all aspirations of a sensible plot and interesting storytelling will just as quickly go […]
The Silence is thematically speaking vaguely similar to A Quiet Place and Bird Box in that they all revolve around antagonists that key into a particular sense. A Quiet Place revolved around creatures that hunted by sound–the same as those in The Silence–while Bird Box’s terrors were visually driven. And that similarity would be fine […]
The zombie genre may be on it’s last legs, pardon the pun. Z Nation? Gone. The Walking Dead is talking about more spinoffs–one (Fear The Walking Dead) has been on for a few years now–though the mothership series is pulling in it’s lowest ratings in years. And is there really any mystery why? Zombie shows […]
Alien: Containment is one of the six–though I have also read there may be seven–shorts made commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Alien. And it’s not that good. I don’t mean for a moment to imply that it’s not well-shot and convincingly production designed. No. Alien: Containment‘s problem is that it doesn’t do anything that we […]
I recently caught The Bye Bye Man on Netflix, and the good thing is that it’s not irredeemably bad. Which still means that it’s bad, just not so bad you get angry at yourself for having watched it. It has all the elements of a really entertaining, well-done movie but the most essential element of […]
We need this movie because until the sequel to Zombieland comes along zombie movies are for the most part grim affairs. And I really enjoy The Walking Dead, but at the same time it helps to mix things up. And coming from Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, Coffee And Cigarettes, Dead […]
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