The found footage horror movie, The Pyramid, makes a point of mentioning that it’s produced by Alexandre Aja, the director of the reboot of The Hills Have Eyes (possibly the most ‘wholesome’ horror film I have ever seen), Mirrors and High Tension, among others. What it doesn’t tell you is that it’s directed by Grégory Lavasseur, who’s Aja’s writing […]
Let’s be clear. The likelihood is that there is no “Amityville Horror.” Or UFO’s. Or ghosts, for that matter. Now, that’s not to say that I don’t fervently wish that there were more out there than us–which is, frankly more than a little depressing–but until I see some evidence myself, I am not buying it. The universe […]
Unlike this trailer, I am not sure that I would ever call the character from the Leprechaun movies ‘iconic.’ Sure, there were there were a few films based him, but he was never in the league of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. Anyway, this version looks a bit more serious (and significantly less campy) than […]
Guillermo del Toro, coming off the success of How To Train Your Dragon 2 (it’s earned over $535 million worldwide) has also produced the upcoming The Book of Life. Judging from the trailer it looks like it could be fun but I have a few caveats: First, it’s a cartoon that revolves around the Mexican Day of the […]
This is why I avoid “historical” movies. First off, however Moses and Ramses looked, they weren’t white. This is because white people (as in: people that look like Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton) aren’t native to that region. Now there were conquests made by Europeans, primarily Alexander the Great, but that was significantly after Moses would had been […]
Typically when horror-maestro Guillermo Del Toro creates something I am one of the first to acknowledge the sheer awesomeness of his work because few directors, in my experience, have such an eye for the small details that make a movie, be it science fiction, horror, or whatever, particularly memorable. His most recent project, a videogame that […]
Wen I first heard of this trailer, the first thing that came to mine was the Nick Cage vehicle, Drive Angry. Though this actually looks pretty interesting. And sure, you can tell virtually the entire movie from the trailer (guy gets ends up driving for criminal, criminal robs mob (or some such organization), guy reluctantly […]
I don’t know what it is about Warner Bros superheroes. For some reason, if the movies are any indicator, Metropolis and Gotham City are where dreams and hope go to die. Overall, everything is dark (more so, at least in a physical sense, in Gotham) and gloomy, as if the inhabitants carried invisible weights upon their shoulders. And […]
When I saw this trailer, I wasn’t terrible impressed. That being said, Meryl Streep is part of the cast, and she’s awesome. I want to say that this movie isn’t going to do all that well, except that I said the same thing about another Disney film, Maleficent, which I got pretty wrong. So while I […]
The last movie I reviewed, Calvary, was a pretty good film, despite a lack of balance between dramatic and comedy elements. I mention it because I think that I found a movie that gets it right. Gerald Johnstone‘s Housebound revolves around a woman (the aptly named Morgana O’Reilly) as Kylie Bucknell, the partner of a not-too-competent […]
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