What ruined The Flash (2023) was by my reckoning three things, one of which I want to discuss. The first was Ezra Miller’s fairly deviant public behavior. The second was at least two directors shaping the movie prior to Andy Muschietti coming on to the project, which is related to the third, namely constantly sinking […]
I was recently on Quora and was a part of a discussion about The Flash, which someone thought was ‘awesome.’ The problem was the I’ve also seen the movie and while it had its moments, by no means deserved such praise. And I get it. Everyone has their own opinion but objectively speaking? Not so […]
Yes, it is. The inciting incident of the chaos at the heart of the movie is the escape of a genetically engineered dinosaur, Indominus Rex (and speaking of dinosaurs how is it that they don’t look as convincing as those from the original movie, which came out 15 years earlier) which escapes its enclosure and […]
I really need to see Batgirl because James Gunn said that it was not releasable while The Flash ‘was probably one of the best superhero movies ever made.’ Having seen the latter it strongly implies that Gunn is either a Warner Bros Discovery shill or his opinion can’t be trusted any longer because I wouldn’t […]
The more I watch Mark Romanek‘s video for David Bowie’s Jump They Say the more I think he – or a director with a similar visual esthetic – should have directed Dune because there’s something really interesting going on with that video, a subtle unease and weirdness that the most recent reboot could have used. […]
I’m trying to watch the reboot of Poltergeist (2015), by my reckoning one of the worst remakes ever made. Now to be sure I’m being a bit hyperbolic – after all, I haven’t seen every remake ever made never mind it’s well-assembled and a fairly competent production – but it bothers me on a visceral […]
Let’s be honest. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008), doesn’t hold up nearly as well as it perhaps should. Sure, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Christian Bale and Heath Ledger did well with the material but I’d argue that they’d also do well if they were reading from the telephone book. My problem with the movie […]
Ike Perlmutter is out as head of Marvel Entertainment and let’s be honest, the real question is why it’s taken as long as it has. From his ties to Trump, his legendary penuriousness, sexism and most recently, backing an losing side in a proxy fight against Disney he’s a vestige of era that needs to […]
According to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) is going to launch a reboot of Chris Carter’s The X-Files, a series that ran from 1993-2018 and revolved around two FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents tasked with investigating weird and uncanny cases. The series had some great seasons, […]
No…? Though to prove it is people typically bring up movies like Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) not doing as well as the first movie – and financially speaking that’s true, except when you take into account that not only had the lead, Chadwick Boseman, died in 2020 and the sequel not only didn’t replace […]
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