If you’re a movie fan, alien invasion movies are not only fairly common, they’re fairly repetitive thematically speaking. Which is to say that the aliens turn up, humanity puts aside their various differences, and the aliens are repelled. The thing is this is not a fairly common template, it’s the version of such things Hollywood […]
I have to admit that I was a little hesitant about 3 Body Problem because I wasn’t a fan of Game of Thrones and both series were created by D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, so despite the latter being a fantasy series and the former science fiction, I had my doubts. I need not have […]
The trailer for Fede Alvarez’s ‘Alien: Romulus’ is finally here, though if you’ve been looking for it prior on YouTube I can understand your skepticism since trailers for the movie have been turning up for the better part of a year. Though I assure you, this is the real thing though don’t take my word […]
Earlier today a trailer dropped for Zach Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver and it pissed me off a bit. Reason being Zach Snyder is at best a mediocre director; all flash and very little substance and that he’s received millions to make mediocre movies means that someone – or perhaps a lot […]
If you’re like me and hear a description of Tony Maylam’s Split Second you’d likely think that it has everything that you’d want in a sci-fi/horror/detective thriller. You have Rutger Hauer playing the detective with the addition of a monster intent on killing him. Add an noir-adjacent atmosphere and one might think that they’d stumbled […]
I have to admit that for awhile I was wondering if Aaron Morehead and Justin Benson (Resolution, Spring, The Endless, etc) had lost their touch because while I was blown away by Resolution (2012) each subsequent film I’ve seen from the pair seemed to drop in my esteem. And it wasn’t that the followups were […]
I’m likely speaking to the converted at this point but I typically can’t stand remakes, particularly those that don’t do anything different than the original. Movies that do that aren’t worth the celluloid they’re filmed on. I bring this up because recently I learned that there’s a Japanese version of Vincenzo Natali’s Cube, which I […]
There’re times Nikita’s Argunov’s Koma is a gorgeous movie to look at and the worlds depicted on screen are rendered in a beautiful, almost painterly fashion. Though there are also a few scenes – luckily few – that fall quickly into the uncanny valley, where you can sort of see that there’re more than a […]
Bruce Willis isn’t a bad actor – he starred in Die Hard for Heaven’s sake! – but the thing is lately he doesn’t appear to particularly…care. And don’t interpret that to mean that he’s just “phoning it in” because that at least takes an actor to be in the moment and just choose not give […]
Why isn’t this movie called “Chaos Rising” again? Anyway, the history of Lionsgate’s Chaos Walking has been a pretty – pardon the pun – chaotic one. The first cut of Doug Liman’s movie was considered unreleasable which is interesting because “first” anything implies “second” or even “third” so the studio couldn’t just recut Liman’s cut […]
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