No, that isn’t a typo. According to Walter Hill, the director of the 1979 epic – that may sound hyperbolic but I indeed consider The Warriors to be an epic – he planned to have a gay gang, the Dingos, in the movie. According to the report in The Hollywood Reporter, they actually made it […]
Remember Judge Dredd (1995), when Sylvester Stallone took off his helmet and screamed (for what was for not the first time in the movie) “I AM THE LAW!” It was certainly memorable (for all the wrong reasons) but what what it was also wasn’t Judge Dredd, a character who in the comics never once revealed […]
I wouldn’t call 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra my favorite movie but it’s certainly watchable though the devil is in the details and that’s where it falls short. And among those details one of the most problematic was the fact that the lower section of Snake Eye’s mask was anatomically accurate. As you […]
Ignore all the hatred you’ve heard about Star Trek: Discovery (currently airing in the United States on CBS All Access, internationally on Netflix) because IT IS AWESOME. That being said, that “awesome” should be taken with more than a few caveats, the biggest being that if you’re a worshipper at the Church of Roddenberry, you’re […]
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 […]
The second trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate dropped a few hours ago, and it’s…underwhelming. The visuals look good, but are by no means exceptional. And there’s also way too much CGI, which was not the case with the first two movies, coincidentally the only two movies in the series that were accepted by both critics […]
I admit to choosing Midsommar over Alexandre’s Aja’s Crawl last weekend–after all, I’ve seen his best (which to my reckoning is his remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 movie, The Hills Have Eyes and his worst, which I think is Horns) and seeing the latter is more recent then the former I think I had a […]
I did not like Christoper McQuarrie’s Mission Impossible: Fallout (virtually) at all. It’s a well-directed movie, though I can’t separate it from Tom Cruise and his Scientology cult. It’s worth mentioning that literally every religion began as a cult, essentially a belief system with relatively few believers, so if I were to have an issue […]
Ang Lee’s Gemini Man is, on the face of it, problematic. First off, on the face of it the plot of the movie seems AWFULLY similar plot-wise to 2012’s Looper. But that’s likely just a coincidence. After all, there’s relatively little that’s new under the sun. Though what’s potentially an bigger issue is that the […]
According to The Hollywood Reporter Paramount has stopped development on a sequel to 1993’s zombie thriller World War Z. The movie has been in various states of development for years, with the most recent version being shepherded by David Fincher (The Game, Fight Club) Apparently the issue is related to budget–ironically enough, the same problem […]
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