I don’t think I’m saying anything controversial when I proclaim most Americans don’t have much of a grasp of either history or literature, which is why Oleg Stepchenko’s Iron Mask bothers me a bit. Seemingly cribbed from Alexandre Dumas’ The Man in the Iron Mask, it goes to places that the original novel likely never […]
I don’t typically like remakes because most of the time they’re lazy, trading on the name of a property that’s remotely familiar with people so that film makers don’t have to do something original, running the risk that whatever they do might not resonate with audiences. Or there’s another slightly – I suspect – more […]
For a long time I didn’t understand the career of Paul WS Anderson. I mean his movies aren’t terrible but neither were they particularly good either and whenever you thought he might be reaching for something more like in Event Horizon (1997) or Soldier (1998), he quickly reminded you that subtext mattered about as much […]
Dylan O’Brien is a good actor, though I’ve only seen him in two of the Maze Runner Trilogy (Maze Runner and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. I haven’t yet seen Maze Runner: The Death Cure because I’m not a glutton for punishment. It’s probably apparent that I didn’t like the two I did see WCKD […]
Ecclesiastes 1:19 tells us: “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” That goes double for Hollywood, an industry built out of repeating the same thing time and again though that’s less inherently negative than a statement of […]
I REALLY like this trailer! It revolves around a couple who’re immigrating from Sudan and despite the fact that it appears that they’ve escaped from a really violent situation in their former home country they encounter horrors of a supernatural variety that they could never have anticipated. The immigrant experience is ripe for the horror […]
David Cronenberg has to rank among the best directors not working nearly as often as he should though I must admit that I didn’t prefer his shift toward more realistic fare with movies like A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. It’s not those were movies were bad more than Cronenberg appeared to be like […]
On October 7th Hulu will premiere another attempt to interpret the work of Clive Barker with Books Of Blood (2020) and I’m not at all optimistic because I’ve seen The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Dread (2009) and Book Of Blood (2009) never mind the Hellraiser movies, of which only three or four are worth watching. […]
The trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune dropped earlier today and it left me genuinely confused because I’m not quite sure who it’s supposed to appeal to. And it was a great, epic-looking trailer but I still don’t understand why it is that Hollywood feels the need to force movies based on Frank Herbert’s visionary sci-fi […]
As far as horror goes, the Western horror movie is in my opinion an underserved subgenre, which is odd when you take into account really good movies like Dead Birds (2004), The Burrowers (2008) and Bone Tomahawk (2015) are a part of it and if success breeds anything, it’s imitators (the “success” I’m referring to […]
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