““Silent Hill: Revelations” by relying so much on the exposition from the original film, suffers.” The first thing that you’re probably asking is: Why is he reviewing “Silent Hill: Revelations?” Didn’t that come out last year? It did, though in my defense I intended to review it when it first appeared in iTunes a few months ago, […]
It should come to no surprise that Universal Pictures and Blumhouse (the production single of Jason Blum, who produced the ‘Paranormal Activity’ films as well) are preparing a sequel to “The Purge,” which has gone on scare up over $34 million at the North American box office. Foreign returns are significantly weaker, though coming in […]
“Great Concept, So-So Movie.” What is it with these movies that seem so afraid to take any sort of risk, seemingly because they might offend someone? First there was the “The Internship,” that somehow manages to forget that when most people – including Vince Vaughan, I suspect – lose jobs (and houses, and girlfriends…) they […]
If anyone remembers when I first posted this trailer, I am still pretty buzzed about it. The Purge answers a question most of us have probably considered at one time or another, which is: What heinous things am I capable of doing if I were allowed to do anything that I wanted? Universal Pictures wants […]
For awhile I was thinking that Elijah Wood being cast as the lead in “Maniac” was a mistake. Before I saw the trailer, I couldn’t get Frodo Baggins out of my head. After having seen it, focusing particularly on his creeped out eyes – they seem a bit too widely spaced, with that creepy Innsmouth […]
I was planning on catching “Star Trek: Into Darkness” this weekend, till the mild sneezing and runny nose I was experiencing throughout last week bloomed to a full-on cold. As a result, I have spent the entire weekend in my apartment, doing as little as I could till I get over this. My condition seemed […]
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 […]
“Hemlock Grove” is an oddly captivating series, less for its content – it lacks the blatant sexuality of “American Horror Story” as well as its hit-or-miss shock value – than the fact that Netflix is releasing it the same fashion as they did in the case of “House of Cards,” which is the entire series […]
I really like this trailer. James DeMonaco, who wrote the screenplay for the excellent “Assault On Precinct 13” reboot is directing “The Purge,” which takes place in an America where crime and unemployment have fallen to unheard of lows. It’s a golden age, though nothing worth having comes without a price. That price is known […]
“”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 […]
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