I like this trailer, if for no other reason it puts children in peril, which I tend to enjoy in movies. Let me explain. Most movies treat children as of they were made of glass and if you look at them too long, they spontaneously combust. And that’s just not true. Children have literally fought […]
The tenth season of AMC’s The Walking Dead is coming up, and I honestly don’t understand why this show is still on the air. I was a huge fan originally but as much as I enjoyed the characters and the occasionally innovative gore effects, it is wearing really, really thin as of late. It hasn’t […]
The trailer for Shudder’s Creepshow dropped a day or so ago…and it’s fine. That’s (deliberately) muted phrase but since we’re talking about a show based upon an movie that was an anthology–a collection of short stories–it’s particularly hard to make a trailer about them because the scenes featured will likely lack any sort of interconnectedness. […]
Take Waititi’s Jo Jo Rabbit feels like something that you’d expect from A24 instead of Fox Searchlight after being acquired by The Walt Disney Company–especially considering that it revolves around a little boy who sees Hitler (Taiki Waititi) when things get difficult. While the trailer doesn’t necessarily make Hitler seem sympathetic it apparently makes some […]
I like high-concept movies. Sure, they’re a risk and easy to botch up but when they work…the payoff is pretty good. Which I mention because I found a teaser trailer for a concept called EsKILLator, a idea from the talented Ben Plumier. About–it should go without saying–a killer escalator (which isn’t as unusual as you […]
There are so many (potential) problems with Disney’s upcoming Mulan (a live-action version of the 2009 animated feature, based on a Chinese folktale) though the hardest hurdle to clear is that it costs (supposedly) somewhere in the ballpark of $290-$300 million dollars to produce! This. Movie. Is. Way. Too. Expensive. I don’t know why it […]
I have never been a fan of remakes though sometimes…sometimes they just work. For instance, John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing is a remake of Christian Nyby’s (with uncredited direction from Howard Hawks) The Thing From Another World or David Cronenberg’s 1986 movie The Fly, a remake of the 1958 original. Both are far better […]
