As you’ve probably guessed from my reaction trailer, I think Tom Cruise is an odd dude. I don’t hate him–he seems genuinely like a kind person–but the thing is virtually everything about Cruise is designed (and I use that word deliberately) to create an impressions. He’s almost a person as art and I find that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper) was–somewhat deservedly–the subject of much opprobrium for The Last Jedi from many in the fan community and Knives Out is the followup. And…it’s a good movie, though not without problems; the greatest being that Johnson thinks he’s much more clever than he really is. There are two instances in particular–one of […]
To paraphrase Superman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. DC Universe, the streaming channel dedicated to all things DC Comics, is finished. There’s been no announcement to that effect, but the writing’s on the wall. First Swamp Thing was cancelled before it’s first EPISODE! And now Stargirl, a new series coming to DC Universe, […]
Sony can’t get over their fetishization of nostalgia. First there was Charlie’s Angels–which according to the media isn’t doing all that well–now there’s Fantasy Island, which if this trailer is any indicator, looks really, really interesting. It–as in the trailer–plays like a horror movie (being produced via Blumhouse doesn’t hurt that association) and it looks […]
Scoob is a cute trailer but I have to ask would anyone care about a Scooby Doo origin story (which is what it appears to be)? I get the feeling that a lot of kids have no idea who he is, and since the likelihood is high that his adventures as a puppy aren’t going […]
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