Guillermo Del Toro rocks. Why, you ask? Sure, it has more than a little to do with him being the director of “Hellboy,” “Hellboy 2,” “Blade 2,” The Devil’s Backbone,” Pan’s Labyrinth, among others. It also has to do with tenaciousness, and following your dreams, no matter how bleak things may seem (it also never […]
“”Evil Dead,” the reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1983 film,”The Evil Dead,” tag line notwithstanding, probably is not “the most horrifying film you will ever experience,” though few films approach self-multilation with such a sense of abandon” In Sam Raimi’s original film, humor was often used to leaven the effects of the horror, thought the reboot–for […]
Mild spoilers below. If you haven’t seen “Mama,” you might want to move on. It’s early going yet, but Universal is planning on sequel to Andy Muschietti’s “Mama.” The horror film, made at a cost of $15 million, has earned over $89 million worldwide, and while that’s a great return on investment, the movie itself […]
Deadline has an interview with Gale Anne Hurd, who is an executive producers of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” She speaks about the controversy over Glen Mazzara leaving the show, though (not surprisingly), says little that we don’t know already. I get the feeling that we haven’t heard the last about this matter.
Why is it that Hollywood, whenever it begins to run low on ideas, feels the need to plunder my dreams? Perhaps I shouldn’t take such things so personally, but after the upcoming (?) reboot of “Space: 1999,” and now “The Tomorrow People,” I am beginning to wonder. The original series of the “The Tomorrow People,” there was a […]
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 […]
DreamWorks’ “Rise of the Guardians, according to one analyst, is not only a failure, but requires somewhere in the neighborhood of a $95 million dollar write-off. Sure, that’s not a John Carter-sized sized screwup, but it’s pretty large. Though, when you think about it, that doesn’t really make sense, and here’s why: The budget of […]
I was drifting around the Internet, when I found this YouTube post from Jace Hall (the guy who’s spearheading the upcoming (?) “Space: 2099”). The recording isn’t the best, and Landau (Commander Koenig from the original series) doesn’t say all that anything that most fans of the original series don’t already know, but it’s good […]
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 […]
Like most people, it disturbs me to read about some of the terrible things that we do to each other, though what grows old fast is the way that we always seem to find something to blame our problems on–as opposed to ourselves, that is. For instance, things like video games, movies, music and television […]
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