Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo Suspiria is a movie that can’t be accused of copying the original, because it’s way too ambitious for that. And the problem–you know it was coming–is that the original movie was relatively simple: namely a horror movie that revolved around a dance academy. Guadagnino doesn’t neglect that […]
Why does this movie exist? And why is it co-written by Gil Kenan, the same person who graced us with the remake of Poltergeist–another movie that had no reason to be? Say what you will about Ghostbusters 2016, that movie at least had something to say. You may not have agreed with it, but it […]
I created a reaction trailer to Patty Jenkins’ for Wonder Woman 1984 though in case you don’t feel like watching, it’s not great (not my reaction trailer, that’s awesome. I mean WW 1984). It’s colorful and seems to reflect that 80’s esthetic pretty well–probably better than Netflix’s Stranger Things–but the trailer is chaotic and not […]
V Wars is a new horror series on Netflix that introduces a novel way global warming will change our lives. Namely. due to the effects of climate change dormant bacteria– actually prions–are reanimated, and begin to convert humans into vampires (!?). And I’m not a science guy and my only knowledge about prions comes from […]
The teaser for Marvel Studios’ Black Widow dropped early this morning, and it’s glorious though what I mentioned in my video is worth repeating, namely Black Widow will likely avoid what I like to call ‘The Charlie’s Angels Misstep.’ By which I mean you make an action film designed with a laser-like focus to appeal […]
The trailer for Blumhouse’s Antebellum is called a ‘trailer,’ when ‘teaser’ would be more apt. It’s so vague–you can tell it has something to do with Slavery (the ‘S’ is no accident. As that peculiar institution existed in the United States was quite unlike how it was elsewhere) and its various accoutrements are somehow reaching […]
Most remakes are pointless, though there are instances they offer something the original didn’t. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch’s remake of Pet Sematary is definitely the former. That it’s so similar to the 1989 movie–directed by Mary Lambert–which makes sense since they’re both based on the same source material. This leads to the question: Why […]
Damon Lindelof’s interpretation–truth be told I’m not at all sure what to call it–of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is a pretty interesting bird. And as much flack as Lindelof gets for Star Trek: Into Darkness and Prometheus (relatively little of which was actually deserved) you can’t say that the man is afraid to […]
I didn’t hate David F. Sandberg’s Shazam!, nor did I particularly like it. My greatest problem with the movie–and they’re quite a few–is that the it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Is it a horror movie? Is it a movie geared toward young people? I couldn’t tell, which makes me think […]
M. Night Shyamalan is fascinating. As I say in the video below he’s one of those persons who seems to fail upward, defying both gravity and common sense. Remember, there was a time when this dude was the toast of Hollywood, before his ego grew too massive to be contained (considering I’m talking about Hollywood […]
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