I’ve got to hand it to M. Night Shyamalan because for a man who’s career was teetering on the abyss not too long ago he’s come back in spectacular form. And who’d thought that being given less money to make movies would be a HUGE reason why. When you take into account Lady in the […]
When I heard that Netflix was releasing a new horror movie I went a little psycho (in the best possible way). Then I learned it was called Ghoul I dared to think that maybe something wicked this way would come and touch me with some horror movie goodness. Then I learned it was Indian–not Native […]
I didn’t see the first Goosebumps because–in hindsight–I don’t believe in horror for children. By which I mean I grew up in the Seventies and distinctly remembering going to the theater with my brothers and some friends to see Arnold. I haven’t seen it since but recall it revolving around a dead guy marrying a […]
We’ve finally–via Entertainment Weekly–got an officially-sanctioned image of Zachary Levi in his Shazam costume. And while the costume itself looks fine–as much of the Internet noticed from not-so-officially sanctioned set photos–Levi doesn’t look so good in it. The greatest problems is the (fake) muscularity of his chest and biceps and questions or proportionality. What we’ve […]
A few days ago Kevin Feige confirmed that there would be a Doctor Strange sequel, which must have been a comfort to the people too clueless to not know better. The original movie earned almost $678 million–on a budget of $165 million–so if there weren’t a sequel it certainly wouldn’t be because it wasn’t profitable.Then […]
It goes without saying I didn’t particularly like the firsr trailer for Shane Black’s The Predator. It played a bit too much like AVP: Requiem (which is insult enough) but for some reason felt the need to imply some kid somehow gained the ability to control a Predator space craft, which one-upped the former movie […]
It’s been revealed by Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, that the title of the Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel will be Spider-Man: Far From Home. And I genuinely have a problem with that because one way I interpreted the title of the first movie was as a return of Spider-Man back to where he belongs (never […]
I understand the moviemakers sometimes have to sacrifice accuracy for realism when producing something based on a comic book because what looks good in a drawing doesn’t always translate well to real life (which is why we’re likely to NEVER see a comic-accurate Scarlet Witch in the Avengers movies). That being said, the goal should […]
I was particularly unimpressed with the teaser trailer for Halloween (2018). Then again, they call them ‘teasers’ for a reason. The full trailer is better but not by a lot. Reason being, if you were in the water with a shark, would you wave a bloody steak in front of it? Probably not, yet there’s […]
Before I begin, I have not been a fan of the Transformers franchise since the first one. Once you get over they’re robots changing into cars, trucks and fighter craft there just isn’t that much there. Which would be bad enough if the movies weren’t–to varying degrees–chock full of cynicism, contempt for the viewer, sexism […]
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