I haven’t seen any movies from Chloe Zhao (Nomadland, The Rider) though I have seen trailers and they’re typically intimate affairs with a visual scope that would not be out of place in a John Ford (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers) movie. Today a teaser trailer was dropped for the movie she’s […]
I wouldn’t call 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra my favorite movie but it’s certainly watchable though the devil is in the details and that’s where it falls short. And among those details one of the most problematic was the fact that the lower section of Snake Eye’s mask was anatomically accurate. As you […]
I really liked this trailer. Because The Purge (2013), the first movie in the series, was a simple home invasion thriller, albeit one with a political aspect, though originally was more a reason for the home invasion scenario to exist than anything else. Though with later movies in the series the idea of one day […]
The trailer dropped for Venom: Let There Be Carnage yesterday and if you liked Venom (2018) you’ll probably feel at home with the upcoming sequel (though who knows? It’s not unusual for clips in trailers to have scenes that were cut for reasons of timing reasons or whatever). So you never actually know what you’re […]
H.P. Lovecraft is an interesting writer in I suspect that if it weren’t for his racism his writing wouldn’t have been as memorable, as haunting as it is. Because underlying his eldritch horrors is a fear of the unknown, of terrors beyond comprehension, an “other” which if you look deeper you’ll likely realize are inferences […]
I’ve never been particularly fond of the bulk of the movies that make up James Wan’s Conjuring universe (The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016), The Nun (2018), Annabelle (2014) and Dead Silence (2007, that latter as far as I’m aware isn’t actually connected though is directed by Wan) because he seems to care more […]
Marvel Studios released a teaser teaser for their upcoming feature, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings starring Simu Liu (Kim’s Convenience) and it looks like it could be a lot of fun, which is if we’re to judge from the trailer has elements of action, heart and humor that’s come to be a […]
When Walt Disney created Disney+, they were not playing because they not only began with an initial investment somewhere in the ballpark of a billion dollars, but they’re projected to increase that to $14-16 billion over the next few years. What they also did was pull their content from everywhere else, including Netflix, which means […]
Earlier this week a trailer was released for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, the sequel/soft reboot to David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016) and I didn’t like it nearly as much as I thought I would. Part of the problem is Ayer’s movie is often criticized when no one has actually seen it – and you […]
I had no idea who Evan Spiliotopoulos was – and to be fair I still don’t beyond knowing a bit more about his career – prior to writing this commentary though he’s been around as far as being a writer is concerned, with over 25 credits to his name. That’s a lot of writing, which […]
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