You can’t say that James DeMarco’s Purge movies aren’t ambitious. The first in the series was essentially a high-concept home invasion thriller with horror overtones. The sequel, The Purge: Anarchy took the home invasion idea, and introduced it into a city-sized canvas. This was the movie where you can see inklings of a political consciousness to the barbarous […]
To be honest a live-action movie based Rudyard Kipling stories doesn’t particularly interest me, though seeing the trailer, it looks pretty awesome. The action looks great, and the CGI seems convincing though there’s only one problem I can see, namely that the voice actors are so recognizable that I found myself trying to find out who was […]
About a half hour ago I disassembled–then reassembled–my iMac. Seeing that I am just not that intellectually curious, I had to have a very pressing reason for doing so. And that reason is that I wasn’t going to pay anyone to do what I could do myself, with a little effort. What interests me about Get A […]
k.i.l.l.i.n.g. (though based on the tone of Deadpool‘s Valentine’s Day trailer, you’d be forgiven if you thought the latter). Both Deadpool and Suicide Squad seem to be exploring the darker sides of their prospective universes though if you ask me I think DC Films should thank whatever deity they worship that Fox’s entry is coming out six months […]
Can I say that John Hillcoat’s Triple 9 looks awesome? Heist/police thriller are a guilty pleasure of mine because when they’re done well, they’re a thing of beauty. In particular I enjoyed Bruce Malmuth’s Nighthawks (a Sylvester Stallone vehicle about a terrorist on the loose in New York, and the cops in pursuit of said terrorists), […]
I just don’t get it; the whole ‘Angry Birds’ thing, that is. The game is the unfunniest thing I have come by–though Zach Scott feels the opposite–but I don’t see the point. The trailer looks cute though, and considering that the games don’t have characters that talk, the filmmakers clearly embellished things a tad. Now, if […]
I haven’t see any of the ‘Divergent‘ movies–and I blame the Hunger Games because all these movies based on Young Adult novels pretty much feel the same for me. And while that’s not quite fair, there’s undeniably a similarity between many of them. Which reminds me: I suggest that you see The Maze Runner if you haven’t […]
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is a pretty bold choice as far as musical accompaniment goes–I am reasonably comfortable in saying that it probably cost Warners a pretty penny to secure the rights–but I am still not sure how to feel about the new trailer for DC Films upcoming Suicide Squad. My problem is that it’s hard […]
I haven’t seen Dan Mazer’s Dirty Grandpa–though looking at the trailer I get the feeling that I have. Uptight man goes with his grandfather on a trip–the grandpa, who doesn’t know his son very well, and is probably dying–bonds with him. Which brings the question: What is Robert De Niro doing? At this point it can’t be […]
William Brent Bell’s The Boy is one of the first movies released by STX Entertainment, a new studio launched in 2014. It reminds me vaguely of two movies. The first is 1973’s Arnold, which revolved around a woman marrying a corpse–not Rupert Murdoch, though I can understand the confusion. The second is Gremlins, especially when the sitter […]
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