I enjoyed Black Widow (2021) though tonally it was really odd in that it felt to me what we should have got was something akin to Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) or Jason Bourne (2016). To be fair what we finally got (because Widow was delayed A LOT) was kind of like those movies, […]
The trailer for Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife dropped a few days ago, and it’s pretty good looking. Which oddly enough is part of the problem. The trailer seems to be going for a haylcon, small-town feel, which is opposite of what the original movie did. And that’s fine in and of itself but I get the […]
Remember when Netflix cancelled Jupiter’s Legacy (2021) after a single season? I do because it wasn’t that long ago and I thought that it was a bit premature (though considering the production issues connected to the series – which came out after the fact – I shouldn’t be too surprised) though I didn’t think they’d […]
I wasn’t a huge fan of David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) reboot because it forgot – if it ever understood in the first place – that John Carpenter’s original 1978 movie was the film that put slasher movies on the map. And I don’t mean that to imply that it was the first, because it […]
What would summer be without the latest Marvel Studios blockbuster? It should have been Black Widow (2021) though that movie – finally arriving July 9 after hopping around the release calendar is premiering in theaters and Disney+ as movie studios devastated by COVID-19 try to bounce back (a web not even a master spy like […]
This trailer really irritates me because it’s a perfect example of having one’s cake and eating it too. If you recall Clive Barker’s The Forbidden (as well as Bernard Rose’s adaptation, Candyman (1992)) the idea was originally that the ‘monster’ had his origins in Slavery, which made him not only poignant, but his creation well […]
I like nothing better than a good werewolf movie though it’s probably one of the most difficult horror sub-genres to get right in that it’s so FX-dependent. And sure, there’re ways you can get around showing a lycanthrope, but that only goes so far because I watch werewolf movies to see werewolves (at some point) […]
Remember Judge Dredd (1995), when Sylvester Stallone took off his helmet and screamed (for what was for not the first time in the movie) “I AM THE LAW!” It was certainly memorable (for all the wrong reasons) but what what it was also wasn’t Judge Dredd, a character who in the comics never once revealed […]
In the name of full disclosure I have to admit that I don’t recall having seen a full episode of DC Universe’s – I mean HBOMax’s – Titans, based on the characters introduced in the Teen Titans comic. Though that’s not because I didn’t try, but because the show is so murky that it doesn’t […]
Remember Birds of Prey – or as it later came to be (ridiculously and somewhat pretentiously) called, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn? That movie underwhelmed at the box office, earning just over $200 million worldwide – which would be a triumph if it were more moderately-budgeted. Though one that […]
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