Guillermo del Toro Can’t Catch A Break
Del Toro seems to struggle, while–how do I put this delicately–less-talented directors seem to rake in the money
Del Toro seems to struggle, while–how do I put this delicately–less-talented directors seem to rake in the money
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Teaser Trailer 3 I’ve included the teaser trailer for the upcoming third trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens partally because I still think it’s particularly douchy to make the trailer the event, as opposed to the movie. After all, we’re talking about Star Wars here. The hype for […]
Or Are Both Marvel Studios And Fox Playing Coy?
I honestly wanted to like the Paranormal Activity movies. After all, there are slim pickings for horror movies at the best of times, yet the PA films are less fully-resized movies than an accumulation of jump scares that last for an hour or so. And maybe that’s not fair, but the filmmakers have had every […]
Marvel Studios is getting something for licensing the rights for Fox to make two X-Men television series. Here’s what I think it is.
When Guillermo del Toro says that his latest movie, Crimson Peak, isn’t a horror movie, but a gothic romance, he means it. A gothic romance is a type of movie that, while horror-adjacent, visually, beckons back to movies like The Innocents, where elaborate costumes and sets help to set the mood and atmosphere. And like Jack Clayton’s 1961 movie, […]
It this doesn’t give you a nerd boner–or the female equivalent–then get medical help.
On the whole, I enjoyed the first two seasons of Netflix’s Hemlock Grove,
Despite being an avid comic reader, prior to Netflix’s Jessica Jones I barely knew anything about the character. I still don’t but I like the way–if the teasers are any indication–where it’s going. Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a political thriller, Guardians Of The Galaxy was Marvel’s interpretation of a space opera. Daredevil (Netflix’s version) […]
The Stranger reminds me of Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, except not nearly as gripping.