Tusk comes courtesy of Kevin Smith, a director that I find more interesting as a media personality than as a director. The last film of his I saw, Red State, I recall being disappointed over because it advertised itself as one thing–a horror film–when it was actually quite another–essentially a thriller about religious zealots. His most […]
You don’t watch a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine expecting any sort of high-brow humor–and if you did it’s all on you because there wasn’t any be found–but what you did get was three actors thrown in the pretty bizarre situation, and their idiosyncratic ways of coping and adapting. When you think about it, […]
Some Memories, And Coma Patients, Are Best Left Alone Mark Hartley‘s Patrick, is currently on Netflix, and is surprisingly a engaging little horror film (before it jumps the rails, that is). I was expecting something silly, on the level of an Asylum feature, it was actually pretty engaging, before the aforementioned rail jumping. Charles Dance brought a much needed […]
Ripping a still-beating heart from the chest cavity that shelters it, as the blood washes all over you in a warm, red fountain. It runs in rivulets, like miniature water falls, down your face; some even winds its way toward your open mouth. The penny-copper tastes coats your tongue before making its way down your throat. At first […]
I haven’t heard of this before it turning up in my Twitter account, but for my money anything done in a Mike Mignola-style (or perhaps done by Mignola himself) is pretty awesome.
I found this interview with Steven DeKnight, the showrunner for Netfilix’s upcoming series based on Marvel’s Daredevil, on Superherohype. He actually give very little away, but does say that the series takes place in the 1970’s and that Vincent D’Onofrio is a really scary Kingpin. He also mentions that things are going really well, though I suspect […]
There may be more Guardians of the Galaxy trailers coming, but seeing that the movie is coming out in a bit less than two weeks, this is the last one (unless a new one has something more interesting to reveal) that I intend to post. The reason being, as far as I am concerned they’re […]
In the TV Spot No. 17, from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy you see a bit more of Groot and his relationship to Rocket. Though what interested me most about the trailer is the way Rocket speaks. He says: “Yes, you did, I just saw you do-ing it. Why you ly-ing.” And he sounds awfully ethnic, in fact, Hispanic. Since […]
I enjoy horror and science fiction movies, primarily, but they’re not the only type that I enjoy. For instance, John Schlesinger’s Marathon Man, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor, George Roy Hill’s Slap Shot and Robert Altman’s M.A.S.H are four films that I hold in particularly high esteem. Which is primarily because they’re so different than […]
Boyhood Is A Fascinating Movie More Because Of How It Was Made, Than The Movie Itself I just saw Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and it was pretty interesting, though mostly on the technical level (it was filmed over a period of 12 years); as an exercise in innovative filmmaking. As a movie meant to engage an audience, it’s way […]
