The latest trailer for Stephen King’s IT dropped a few hours ago, and the first thing I wondered when I saw if was if IT was also a part of the Stranger Things universe. Both feature Finn Wolfhard, both revolve around a group of young people on the cusp of the adult world–and the secrets that […]
David Ayer’s Bright is the ‘fast-talking cop teams up with Orc’ movie we didn’t know we needed. Watching the trailer I’m shocked at how long it feels (I haven’t seen the movie, yet it feels like I already have). I also get the impression that the movie is treating orcs as Ordinary People, except for […]
Guillermo Del Toro is, visually speaking, one of the most distinctive directors working today. The way he lays out a scene, the color palette he uses…typically unique and unlike any anyone else. So, why am I (atypically) lukewarm toward his latest project, The Shape of Water? Maybe because it looks very much like things we […]
The latest trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049–a pretty terrible title, by the way–a few hours ago and so far reminds me less of Ridley Scott’s original and more than Peter Hyams’ 2010 in that it appears to take the most important elements of the original (Harrison Ford, replicants, a neon-bright skyscraper, a whiff […]
Always jonsing for a new horror movie, the trailer for Lars Klevberg’s Polaroid turned up a few days ago, and it looks pretty much like it’s cribbing from virtually every horror movie from the the past ten years or so. Which doesn’t that it won’t be an enjoyable–horror is known for its recycling ethos–but what it […]
I have to admit that I liked the first trailer for Marvel Television’s upcoming Inhumans a lot more than I thought I would. That being said, that doesn’t mean that there weren’t a few problems. such as… Way too many guns. The whole point of the Inhumans is that they have abilities that set them apart from […]
Luc Besson is nothing if not ambitious and Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets is his most ambitious feature yet, but I am concerned. The movie, based on a French comic book written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, is likely unfamiliar to most Americans, which is likely why the director […]
Joel Schumacher often gets a bad rap because he directed movies like Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. And having seen both of those movies in their neon-lined, homoerotic glory some of that opprobrium is certainly deserved though it has the unfortunate (and perhaps unintended) effect of tainting everything Schumacher has done before or since. […]
When I went to catch Alien: Covenant last Sunday (review coming soon!) I saw a poster for a movie called Polaroid. Polaroid cameras in general would be an interesting way for evil to spread after all there’s something mildly disturbing about watching an image appear–almost ghostlike–when there had prior been nothing. One of the original trailers […]
There something comforting about an Agatha Christie mystery, though I have never tried to quantify why. Before now, that is. I think that what drew me to them originally was the logical way the stories were constructed and the way the mystery unfolded. Typically you put a group of strangers in a situation where there’s […]
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