Few things bother me more than movies that refuse to acknowledge that being physically disabled might be hard for a person to contend with. I get it that people want to see entertainment that’s inspirational and makes one feel proud. That being said, being blind – for example – for people that are not accustomed […]
I don’t think I’m saying anything controversial when I proclaim most Americans don’t have much of a grasp of either history or literature, which is why Oleg Stepchenko’s Iron Mask bothers me a bit. Seemingly cribbed from Alexandre Dumas’ The Man in the Iron Mask, it goes to places that the original novel likely never […]
For a long time I didn’t understand the career of Paul WS Anderson. I mean his movies aren’t terrible but neither were they particularly good either and whenever you thought he might be reaching for something more like in Event Horizon (1997) or Soldier (1998), he quickly reminded you that subtext mattered about as much […]
On October 7th Hulu will premiere another attempt to interpret the work of Clive Barker with Books Of Blood (2020) and I’m not at all optimistic because I’ve seen The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Dread (2009) and Book Of Blood (2009) never mind the Hellraiser movies, of which only three or four are worth watching. […]
The second trailer for No Time To Die, the 25th movie in the James Bond series and the last for current Bond Daniel Craig, dropped earlier today and it raises more questions than it answers. 2015’s Spectre was gorgeous, but bloated, the opposite of this interpretation of Ian Fleming’s super spy. So, No Time To […]
A trailer dropped for Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile earlier today and it really bothered me. Agatha Christie published 66 books before her death in 1976 and yet somehow Hollywood seems to feel the need to remake those that have already been made into feature films (Murder On The Orient Express in 1974, directed […]
Alessio Ligouri’s In The Trap–a movie about a proofreader trapped in his apartment by an entity he believes to be Satan–is remarkably relevant considering millions of Americans are avoiding crowds and self-isolating because of the threat of #coronovirus to us and our loved ones. Which is an interesting observation to make because my video turned […]
I like this trailer. David Marmor’s 1Br reminds me vaguely of Michael Winner’s The Sentinel, a movie that not only stars a young Christopher Walken, but is a horror movie that I hold near and dear to my heart. The movie revolves around a woman who seems to be living alone for the first time […]
The final trailer for Marvel Studios’ Black Widow dropped today and we get to see more of Taskmaster, who we learned is behind The Red Room (which if I recall was mentioned in Avengers (2012) and fleshed out in Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015)). It’s a great looking movie, though what bothers me–and I’m among […]
I going to just put this out there, but I don’t tend to like inspirational-type movies that wear their inspiration on their sleeves. Antebellum–at least based upon the trailer–is such a movie. Janelle Monáe plays Veronica, a powerful, progressive woman who’s chosen to go back to Slavery times to (likely) write some sort of wrong. […]
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