I have no idea who Toa Fraser, the director of The Dead Lands, is, or why he’s so acclaimed, but I have to say that I like the trailer. Definitely getting a Once Were Warriors vibe, combined with a bit of Quest For Fire with the added bonus that for some reason I connect the title to the […]
Let’s be honest for a moment. Keanu Reeves is a pretty mediocre actor. In most movies he appears, he occupies physical space, yet at the same time barely registers, almost as most of him existed in some sort of parallel dimension and what we see on movie screens is only a shadow the real person. Like Roger Zelazny’s Amber. […]
Truth be told, I am neither a huge Star Wars fan (beyond the first film and its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back) nor too interested in J.J. Abrams as a director (way too many lens flares). That being said when video of the Millennium Falcon is posted, you repost it. Because “when you’re nose to nose […]
For those of us that aren’t divergent enough, or aren’t into maze running, there’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (and speaking of Part 1, I get the feeling that if Lionsgate could have stretched the last book in the series out into three or more movies they would have done so) where it looks like Panem is […]
I like introducing artists to people who may not be aware that they’re out there, so here’s the trailer for The Purgation, a movie by Elaine Chu that revolves around a woman named Iris, who attempts the exorcise some figurative ghosts and, if the trailer is any indicator, ends up encountering some very literal ones. Then […]
I saw Charles B. Pierce‘s original The Town That Dreaded Sundown a long time ago, and I recall it being particularly scary. What made it so was the fact–did I mention that it’s based on a true story?–that there wasn’t a rhyme or reason for the actions of the killer that anyone could see. Five or six […]
Originally the movie Ouija was going to be huge, in terms of budget, before Universal (the studio releasing the horror feature) balked and almost abandoned the project. The story was tweaked, and it was brought in significantly cheaper, and the rest is history. It always mystified me why it was originally planned as a big-budget feature (other than […]
The Equalizer is going to be a monster, despite the R-rating. Denzel Washington is as reliable as it gets, as far as consistently entertaining actors go. I also like how the characters that he tends to play don’t overcompensate in terms of their physicality, by which I mean you can see from the trailer that Washington is […]
Hollywood can be so fascinating. It seems that lately there’s a trend revolving around religious-based movies, from Noah to Exodus: Gods and Kings, God is in. This isn’t something that’s been ignored by either comedies, This Is The End, Rapture-Palooza (a really funny movie. Well worth checking out), dramas, and horror films. The most recent example of […]
This trailer really had me going for awhile. As I have written before, I think stories of ghosts, gods and demons are little more than ways to explain where the sun goes at night, why there’s thunder during a storm or what makes you sick. And that’s all well and good, but the thing is, I […]
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