It was interesting that the final trailer for Zach Snyder’s Justice League was released yesterday because I had reached the end of my patience with the entire affair. I was tired of a movie – apparently a not very good one – taking up so much oxygen, tired of the self-indulgence it takes to make […]
Black and white movies tend to bother me. Let me clarify. I don’t mind black and white movies when there was no other option BUT with black and white movies in modern times there tends to be a pretentiousness that accompanies that’s more than a little bit off-putting. Remember John Ford’s The Searchers? I haven’t […]
Guillermo Del Toro always ranked particularly high in my hierarchy of directors, so when I heard he was developing a movie based on a staple of anime – giant robots – I was so there. And Pacific Rim (2013) didn’t disappoint, though what surprised me was how much heart the movie had. And sure some […]
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 […]
I haven’t particularly keen for any of the American Godzilla movies. Each one thus far has felt like a course correction, as if the producers were trying to right a giant ship (the 1998 movie, which I’m not including, was akin to the Titanic, so there’s that) instead of producing the type of movie the […]
As you can probably guess, I really like words though as a focus of a television show it’s probably not something most people would find engaging. Then again there’s Netflix’s History of Swear Words. What makes it interesting is not only that it takes commonly used curses – which if you’ve existed on this planet […]
I’m trying something new with my Youtube channel, Trailer Into REaction w/News because there’re sometimes things I want to comment in the entertainment news arena on don’t necessarily want to spend an inordinate amount of time on a particular topic. And besides, I don’t have a dedicated “News” feature on my channel and I’m not […]
Typically I don’t particularly care much for commercials though I also have to acknowledge when they’re done particularly well. For instance, the Geico and and Progressive commercials have been pretty entertaining for a while now (though the latter ebb and flow. The most recent bunch I’m haven’t been terribly impressed by. They’re not terrible, just […]
Trailers are important but I’d argue that titles are even more so because you’re likely to hear them long before you see a trailer, and make your mind accordingly. For instance, let’s look at The Cleansing Hour, a horror film by Damien LeVeck (I wonder if that’s a pseudonym) about some people who fake exorcisms […]
Stuart Gordon’s Castle Freak is not The Outsider – the story by H.P. Lovecraft’s short story that it’s based upon – though it is interesting in it’s own right. It takes the essential essence of Lovecraft’s story – a being separate from humanity due to his alienness (it’s always a “he” with Lovecraft) – a […]
