The trailer for 65 dropped earlier this week and it looked – at least initially – pretty impressive as Adam Driver plays a pilot who’s spaceship, which happens to be transporting 35 people for reasons that aren’t revealed, is disabled by an asteroid, and falls to Earth. Surviving the crash, he has to not manage […]
Let’s be clear, Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is likely to be dumb as shit. And sure it’s based on an actual event, but like most movies that make that claim it’s likely to neglect the more pertinent details of the story, which is that four-legged animals can overdose – and die – just as easily […]
Freeze is based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft and like most such adaptations, my expectations are not high. This is because by my reckoning most people that adapt Lovecraft don’t understand Lovecraft (kind of like when Zach Snyder was at the helm of DC’s live action efforts. You could feel the contempt he had […]
Found footage movies are hard to do well. Having seen the success of The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity – both of which were made on shoestring budgets and making profits significantly larger than their production cost – I get the feeling that filmmakers take it for granted that they’re something anyone can do. […]
The trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dropped earlier today, and having watched it – it’s pretty good – I realized that people probably don’t quite understand how important the character was to Marvel Studios’ efforts. For a start, the idea of Ant-Man is far pulpier – or sillier, depending upon how you look […]
What is it about filmmakers that makes them continue to make movies that are supposedly about actual human beings, where they adopt hideous dolls or, in the case of M3gan, create equally hideous automatons that it goes without saying are going to try to kill them at some point? Do you remember 2014’s Annabelle? In […]
Earlier today the official trailer for Hulu’s Hellraiser dropped, and it features a FEMALE Pinhead! I emphasize that because that’s what the trailer does and I find it confusing because there never been anything intrinsically male about Pinhead – beyond being played by a male actor – in that I could see the character easily […]
The teaser trailer for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is pretty amazing, primarily because it doesn’t appear that the upcoming movie will ignore the death of Chadwick Boseman – who played T’Challa/Black Panther – who died of colon cancer in 2020. Though another thing of interest is that the movie serves as the introduction […]
A lot of people want you to think that a person’s private persona is entirely separate from that which they present to the public. I don’t buy it, especially these days when information travels so quickly. For instance, I don’t think it’s debatable that Roman Polanski is a talented director, but I find the rape […]
I think it’s an interesting question: Why are we getting a movie based on Morbius The Living Vampire? The feature is based on a Marvel Comics character, Michael Morbius, who in a search for cure to his own blood-borne illness develops a condition awfully close to vampirism (hence the whole ‘Living Vampire’ thing). If it […]
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