Few things are better–whether animated or live action–than a good anthology series and while I don’t know if Love, Death + Robots will rank among the best, if the trailer is any indication, it’s off to a good start. And the pedigree behind this new upcoming Netflix series is beyond impressive. It comes from the […]
A new trailer for the upcoming reboot of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary dropped a day or two ago, and…it looks pretty good, which is understandable you realize it’s directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer (the directors of the great Starry Eyes). My greatest problem is that the original Pet Sematary (I literally just realized–after […]
When I heard that there was talk to reboot the Child’s Play movies I was a bit disappointed because, under the leadership of original writer Don Mancini, it’s been a really interesting series of movies. I think the original is pretty good, though the sequels don’t quite hit the target. That being said–particularly in the […]
Stephen King was a cottage industry long before this apparent frenzy–likely due to the bazillion dollars IT made; a movie that was…fine but by no means as anything as people seemed to think–to remake his books came into play. Which when you think about it is a bit odd because it’s not like King doesn’t […]
…though not quite as good as the original. I realized two things when listening to Marilyn Manson’s cover of Gerald McMann’s ‘Cry Little Sister’ from the 2010 Joel Schumacher horror/homosexuality allegory The Lost Boys namely Manson sings a lot better than I gave him credit for. His voice holds up really well. That being said, […]
What is it with the Alien and Predator franchises? It almost feels like they’re being deliberately sabotaged (few other things can explain why Ridley Scott is so intent on undermining a series he himself helped to create) by some really bizarre decisions on the part of the people directing them, and it’s a pity. In […]
You don’t typically get much in the way of mea culpas (and in Latin, no less!) out of me, but seeing that I originally posted that George R.R. Martin’s Nightflyers was on Syfy, not Netflix , I felt an apology was in order. This is important for two reasons. First, I subscribe to Netflix, not […]
I have been know to review books here on Screenphiles, but it’s not something that I do on any sort of regular basis. That being said, I just finished Patty Jansen‘s Shifting Reality, the Book I of the ISF-Allion Series and it was…okay. The future world the novel depicts was an interesting one, though my biggest […]
As far as I’m concerned–at least initially–the best horror is in the sizzle, not the steak. Keep in mind that in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws for a good portion of the movie you never see the shark at all (for the most part a fortuitous accident. The mechanical shark, known affectionately as Bruce, more often than […]
When I heard all the brouhaha over Paul Feig’s reboot of Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters I didn’t quite understand what it was all about; beyond the obvious, such as recasting the leads as women. You see, because while I enjoyed the original movie, it didn’t make much of an impression on me. And Brendan Mertans Ghostheads didn’t […]
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