A teaser trailer for Fear The Walking Dead, the companion series to AMC’s The Walking Dead, has turned up, and I am a bit concerned in that I have no idea what’s going to differentiate it from the series that spawned it. They appear to be going the route of using the trailers to individually introduce significant characters, […]
{youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrV-rregHIw] I was going to link to the latest trailer for The Peanuts, except that for some reason Fox isn’t allowing it. I’ve tried different sites, but the result is the same: No love. Which is a bit weird in that this is the fourth trailer from the movie, so I am not quite seeing […]
I don’t believe in literal curses, though I do believe that–for whatever reason–some productions are more troubled in others and you can’t get more ‘troubled’ than The Crow. Keep in mind that Brandon Lee was killed during production on the original film–shot at close range by a blank–and while no one has died during the remake, […]
Recently DC revealed the latest costume for Batman, via Comicbookresources. Despite not being a huge fan of either DC Comics or the character, I really like it. The current iteration of Batman is caped, and while it sticks with tradition, these days it doesn’t quite make sense. The character was originally created in the 1940’s with a design intended […]
I was pretty impressed by Skyfall, which somehow managed to be referential to James Bond movies past, while at the same time breaking new ground. Though Spectre holds the promise of being the James Bond feature that reintroduces to fans a character that many have been waiting for for a long time, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. A […]
Katniss Everdeen, and the rebellion she helped nurture has finally borne bitter fruit, as the players aligned against President Snow seemingly make their move. Though what I find most interesting is that the world of Panem–as depicted in the Hunger Games movies, at any rate–looks remarkably similar to today’s America (in that you have entrenched elites making all […]
It may have just been me, but looking at the trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Martian the first thing that came to mind was another Scott movie, Prometheus, which features a silica storm that looks just like the one featured in this movie. Though I am assuming that they producers are going less for hard-core […]
Sun I’m on an email list from Deadline: Hollywood, so when I learned that Dominic Patton had reviewed the upcoming Netflix series, Sense8, from Larry and Lana Wachowski, I was immediatedly curious how he felt about it (especially coming off Jupiter Ascending). Wolfgang Patton really enjoyed it, which I have to admit surprised me; though what […]
The teaser for Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur was released today, and it’s very Pixarian (not a word, but it ought to be) in that the backgrounds appear almost photo-real, while the creatures themselves (be they cars, planes, people or in this instance, dinosaurs) look relatively soft, doughy and not at all realistic. Which makes sense considering that to do otherwise […]
Can we just accept that Joe Cornish is a bit overrated? That’s not to say that there isn’t the potential for greatness, but so far most of what he’s done has been in association with Edgar Wright. His first turn at directing was 2011’s Attack The Block (which he also wrote), a box-office failure (though let’s not for […]
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