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, […]
The trailer for 65 dropped earlier this week and it looked – at least initially – pretty impressive as Adam Driver plays a pilot who’s spaceship, which happens to be transporting 35 people for reasons that aren’t revealed, is disabled by an asteroid, and falls to Earth. Surviving the crash, he has to not manage […]
When movies were released at the height of the pandemic one could easily blame their underperforming on people being leery of catching the virus. Nowadays? COVID is hanging – and mutating – on but economies all over the world seem to be coming back to life, emerging like a bear from deep hibernation. This was […]
I think it’s an interesting question: Why are we getting a movie based on Morbius The Living Vampire? The feature is based on a Marvel Comics character, Michael Morbius, who in a search for cure to his own blood-borne illness develops a condition awfully close to vampirism (hence the whole ‘Living Vampire’ thing). If it […]
The teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home dropped yesterday and it’s pretty good though I wonder if I would feel the same about if it weren’t for Tom Holland, who’s pretty charismatic, and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) who’s the most interesting character in the trailer (which is notable because while I enjoyed his 2016 […]
The trailer for Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife dropped a few days ago, and it’s pretty good looking. Which oddly enough is part of the problem. The trailer seems to be going for a haylcon, small-town feel, which is opposite of what the original movie did. And that’s fine in and of itself but I get the […]
I don’t tend to read other people’s movie reviews – unless they’re irrelevant enough that I don’t take details from them because I can be that impressionable – and after I have already reviewed something I’m not typically too interested in what anyone thinks about the same subject. And I didn’t need to track down […]
I grew up on cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Johnny Quest and Woody Woodpecker, etc, which typically consisted less of thematic/moral lessons than various degrees of chaos. Davey and Goliath – which is animation, just with clay – and The Peanuts were notorious for looking at things from a thematic perspective though the thing is they […]
If you’ve seen any of the commercials promoting Sony’s Fantasy Island it could be understood if you mistook it for a horror movie. After all, it’s from Blumhouse Pictures, the studio that released movies like The Darkness (2016), Get Out (2017), Us (2019) and numerous others. And the adverts imply a lot of sinister goings […]
Daniel Espinosa’s Life is a curious movie, an anomaly, in fact. It’s probably one of the first movies I can recall enjoying while watching, yet really disliked when it ended. In my review I describe it as “C-Grade Movie with A-List Actors, Direction and Production Design” because that’s how it feels. Life takes a lot […]
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