I find most everything about Zach Snyder’s Justice League frustrating – never mind the trailer being black and white – and to be honest, a little off-putting. First, there’s no such thing as “Zach Snyder’s Justice League” because that’s like saying “Joss Whedon’s Avengers” or “The Russo Brothers’ Civil War.” It places a director above […]
Werewolves have always been my favorite movie monster, in hindsight because they’re so open to metaphor and reinterpretation. They can be a manifestation of rebellion against established norms, analogies for sexual awakening (like in Ginger Snaps (2000)) or numerous other things. Though I get the feeing that they’re at their most terrifying when they butt […]
Stardust appears to chronicle the period of 1972-1974, when David Bowie assumed the persona of Ziggy Stardust, which considering how theatrical he was throughout that period seems particularly cinematic. Though for a moment let’s go to me growing up in, where it was not uncommon to see posters for Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to […]
I don’t think Jeff Fowler’s Sonic The Hedgehog is by most metrics a “good” movie in that the story is relatively simplistic, yet at the same time not terribly well told though it’s watchable for reasons I don’t think the people that produced it intended. I originally had no intention of seeing this movie, which […]
Few things bother me more than movies that refuse to acknowledge that being physically disabled might be hard for a person to contend with. I get it that people want to see entertainment that’s inspirational and makes one feel proud. That being said, being blind – for example – for people that are not accustomed […]
I really enjoyed The Wretched mainly because it’s evocative of movies produced in the early to mid-eighties by directors like Steven Spielberg and Tom Holland, which is to say it’s a true horror film, but it’s also a pretty charming one. It’s also not a mean-spirited despite the subject matter – a witch preys (literally, […]
André Øvredal is the director of movies like The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2010) and Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019) and while I think Autopsy is a creepier movie that Scary Stories, both are pretty enjoyable in their own right. Now the Norwegian director appears to be taking on superheroes with Mortal. […]
I have to admit that I was less interested in House at the End of the Street as a movie than because it was directed by Mark Tonderai, who last I heard was interested in tackling the reboot of Marvel Studios’ Blade. Though let’s look at the movie anyway. House at the End of the […]
When I first saw a commercial for Ben Hernandez Bray’s El Chicano I was thinking to myself that maybe Latinos would be getting a superhero they could call their own, in the same way African-Americans led the way in making Black Panther (2018) into something greater than his comic book origins. Now maybe that’s too […]
I don’t claim to be the brightest guy in the world, but why would a studio produce – never mind release – a movie about a viral pandemic during an actual viral pandemic!? By way of comparison, during the days of the Black Death I suspect that there weren’t a lot of popular entertainments revolving […]
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