I remember growing up wishing that Marvel Studios had control of the properties they ‘leased’ to other studios during their bankruptcy, like Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Well, 2.5 out of three ain’t bad because with Disney’s purchase of the theatrical assets in 2019 they officially regained possession of the X-Men and Fantastic […]
My expectations for the, as far as I could tell, unnecessary remake of Steven King’s Salem’s Lot were fairly low because there were not only already two prior miniseries based on the same novel but both were pretty good. I prefer the 2004 version but there’s nothing at all wrong with the 1979 one. As […]
I have a sneaking suspicion that Robert Eggers’ upcoming Nosferatu is going to not do all that well at the box office. And there are a few reasons why I think that that going to be the case – take a look at the video for more – one worth thinking about is why it’s […]
I’ve gotta admit that I’ve become a bit fixated with Jack Clayton’s Something Wicked This Way Comes because having listened to the soundtrack for his movie by Georges Delerue (before he was replaced by James Horner) it’s music that’s vastly different from the visuals. This leads me to believe that, while I’m quite aware that […]
If you’re familiar with David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016) it’s probably due to it being a massive hit at the box office (which I think had to do more with the time it was released than anything else because during what I like to call the superhero boom you could throw a cape on virtually […]
By my reckoning the biggest problem that Marvel Studios faces is less sequels or superhero fatigue – something I’m not at all convinced exists – than runaway production costs. Some might tell you that interest has waned in superhero films, which is blatantly not true (particularly when it comes to Marvel Studios, though DC Films…the […]
James Gunn posted a picture of David Corenswet as Superman on Instagram from the upcoming Superman: Legacy and I wish he had chose a photo that looked more heroic because while I understand why Henry Cavill was recast, I think he more looked the part. And is it just me, but why does the tunic […]
I have not been too enthusiastic about what I have seen of the recent crop of horror movies adapted from characters recently introduced in the public domain, like Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse because (particularly in the case of the former) they seem to forget why people loved them in the first place. Now, […]
Jared Leto posted an image from the upcoming Tron 3 or TR3N (a weird jumble of letters and a ‘3’ though unlike M3GAN it at least makes sense in that it’s the third Tron movie) on Instagram and apparently the movie carries over the design esthetic from Tron: Legacy (2010) That’s good and bad because […]
When I first heard that James Wan was developing a series based on Robert McCammon’s excellent novel,Stinger, I had mixed feelings. The novel revolves around an alien (the language of the creature isn’t directly translatable to any human language so the closest we can get to what the creature is is ‘Stinger of the House […]
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