This turned up a week or so ago. Positive buzz is pretty high, though I am not sure why. After all, mirrors as conduits for malevolent spirits isn’t a new idea. Off the top of my head I recall “Mirrors,” its sequel as well as “The Boogey Man”– why do they call it ‘Boogeyman‘ anyway? As […]
If this movie had just zombies, I would have been satisfied. A bit underwhelmed perhaps, but satisfied. The effects work–of prime importance for any film featuring the walking dead–looks OK, though to be honest you can’t see all that much, even with the Red Band trailer, which I have posted. But when you add robots […]
There are only so many horror tropes to draw on: Killer aboard spaceship knocking people off; killer robot aboard spaceship knocking people off; killer robot mutant aboard spaceship knocking people off; alien aboard spaceship knocking people off; vengeful host of alien, which lives on in a now killer robot, knocking people off. Replace ‘spaceship’ with […]
As a director, I get the feeling that Tim Story doesn’t get the credit that he deserves. The two Fantastic Four films were workable (he’s done other films, like “Barbershop” and “Taxi,” but I am more concerned with his fantastical fare. The reason why I will get to momentarily). In fact, that’s their greatest problem: […]
SyFy (which made a lot more sense when it was called ‘Sci-Fi’) feels like a network run by schizophrenics. On one hand you have Asylum features like “Sharknado” and “Atlantic Rim,” movies with bad acting, schlocky premises and very unspecial special effects. On the other you have series like the remarkable reboot of “Battlestar Galactica.” […]
While I have never (directly) paid to see any of the ‘Expendables’ films when I happen to catch one I generally have a good time. There’s a sense that Sylvester Stallone and the rest of his crew aren’t taking themselves quite so seriously, no matter how much violence rains about them. That’s a refreshing change […]
Remember the much-talked about Kickstarter campaign to revive the cancelled 2004 CW series “Veronica Mars?” Being that you’re seeing the trailer, it goes without saying that the campaign was a success. That being said, I have no idea how the trailer is. I mean, it looks OK, but seeing that I never actually watched the […]
I heard about the making of this movie awhile ago, though I only recently learned about the trailer. Johnny Depp is playing some type of scientist (I think he’s working with artificial intelligence, though the trailer didn’t specify) whom ends up having his consciousness transferred into a computer. This happens because of an assassination attempt […]
The trailer for “The Raid 2: Berandal,” which unfortunately has nothing to do with Marathon 2: Durandal, has arrived. There’s lots of punching, kicking and car crashes, though I had difficulty making narrative sense of most of it. I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t seen the first entry in the series (which supposedly […]
I have to watch 2011’s “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes” again. From what I recall, how the apes came to dominance didn’t strike me as particularly plausible – I know that we’re talking about about a movie where the apes are essentially acting like very hirsute humans, but still – because the entire […]
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