I have to admit that when I first heard of Happy Death Day I wasn’t expecting much…and after finally having seen it, I was right. It’s too disposable by far and you know that that’s going to be the case when you realize the idea of a person reliving the same day seemingly infinitely is […]
The original Children Of The Corn (1984) is a pretty good movie, though the sequels got progressively bad, till we reached Children Of The Corn: Urban Harvest, which is absolutely terrible (See it! It’s fascinatingly bad!) This new version, directed by John Culager, looks decent, though as I mentioned in my review of the trailer, […]
A new trailer for the upcoming reboot of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary dropped a day or two ago, and…it looks pretty good, which is understandable you realize it’s directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer (the directors of the great Starry Eyes). My greatest problem is that the original Pet Sematary (I literally just realized–after […]
You know the feeling you get when you think a movie’s likely to be a blatant money grab? Let’s just say my radar went off when watching the trailer for Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Play. Klevberg’s filmography is relatively brief–I’ve seen posters of Polaroid in movie theaters, but have no idea when the movie will actually […]
When I heard that there was talk to reboot the Child’s Play movies I was a bit disappointed because, under the leadership of original writer Don Mancini, it’s been a really interesting series of movies. I think the original is pretty good, though the sequels don’t quite hit the target. That being said–particularly in the […]
The Passage, a new series on Fox based on the novel of the same name by Justin Cronin, is well-done though problematic, if the first episode is any indicator. Saniyya Sidney, Mark Paul Gosselaar (barely recognizable from his Saved By The Bell days) and Henry Ian Cusick (who could literally play the ‘concerned scientist’ role […]
Yesterday I rented Monsterland on iTunes–it was on sale for 99 cents–and I’m glad I did because if I had paid more I’ve been really pissed. As it stands it wasn’t a terrible anthology–and far better than the truly horrendous Creepshow 3, which isn’t saying much–but too inconsistent (when it wasn’t being amateurish and badly […]
Two hours ago Netflix’s Stranger Things announced the date of the third season of it’s breakout hit, Stranger Things. And that date is…July 4, 2019.
If you enjoyed Netflix’s Bird Box as much as I did, you likely thought that it would have been improved if they had shown the monster. Well, according to Susanne Bier, Eric Heisserer and Sandra Bullock they actually shot a scene where the monsters were revealed. And let’s say that things did not go quite […]
2018’s A Quiet Place came in the nick of time because Paramount–the studio that released it–was on relatively shaky ground after the underwhelming response to Star Trek: Beyond (there’s no colon in the title but I’m adding one anyway). It certain didn’t hurt that A Quiet Place was budgeted at $17 million and earned just […]
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