NBC, as part of their upcoming new season, is launching a series based upon DC/Vertigo’s Hellblazer. And unlike the last movie based on the character, this time around he’s actually British! And blond! I don’t know quite what’s going on, but I have grown accustomed to television executives doing their best to ignore, not acknowledge, the […]
Stuff You Put On The Internet Is There For Forever. Consider That Before You Make A Movie About How Small Your Penis Is Brian Spitz‘s Unhung Hero opens on two guys in a spartan hotel room in Papua, New Guinea. One’s black, and the other’s white. After a moment the black guy sits down and prepares a syringe, while in the […]
I recently did a writeup of Steven McKnight’s Locke, starring Tom Hardy and a BMW X3 for Love Your Movies. It’s one of the pithier reviews that I have written and more importantly I think that it manages to give the reader an impression of what’s going on in the movie, without spoiling it. I enjoyed writing […]
I have no idea why someone called this a ‘red band’ trailer, which usually means that there’s an excess of something (typically violence acts or salty language). That being said, it is intense. Snowpiercer revolves around a world devastated by global warming, with the last vestiges of humanity existing aboard a train, Snowpiercer. Over time, the […]
And I am OK with that because their service is so reasonably priced in the first place. It normally costs $7.99 and is going up a dollar, though the increase applies only to new users, while current users are ‘grandfathered’ in at the current rate for two more years. Sounds good to me, and not only because […]
I have to admit that I have been jonsing for a really entertaining horror movie for awhile, and have yet to scratch what’s been a particularly irksome itch. I saw “Oculus” a few weeks ago; good movie, though barely an appetizer. I need something really ambitious, something primarily practical–minimal CGI–and so creepy in the atmosphere department that […]
Before Mike Flanagan wrote and directed “Oculus’ there was his award-winning short “Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man With The Plan.” Despite being the third chapter, far as I know there were no prior editions. I have been looking for a link to the actual short, but I have yet to find it. As soon as I do, […]
Lawrence Fishburne is not only an awesome actor, but he also has one of the most distinctive voices in movies. Like James Earl Jones, who voiced Darth Vader in the ‘Star Wars’ films, I honestly think that his voice adds value–and I mean literally. I don’t know of any studies to buttress my point, but I […]
Ridley Scott, even when his films are sort of silly, like “Legend,” look absolutely remarkable. He has an eye that manages to catch the smallest details, but his ear for nonsensical story beats is not quite so acute. For instance, while “Prometheus” was gorgeous to look at, but if you give it any sort of consideration, […]
“Gotham” is a series about Gotham City before Batman, which reminds me: Why would anyone care about Gotham City before Batman? That’s not to imply that I am saying that a young Commissioner Gordon is by any means incompetent but you take away the Caped Crusader, you’re left with a procedural like “Law & Order,” […]
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