I recently saw Alita: Battle Angel (or as I like to call it: Battle Angel: Alita) and while I’m unfamiliar with the anime it’s based upon I have to say that that there’s something…off about it. It has everything it needs to be an event… but somehow it’s not. Everyone behind the camera, from James […]
Suits is a great episode and if it doesn’t end up ranking among the best I’ll be genuinely shocked. Written by Tim Miller, it’s a love letter to what I imagine are his favorite movies, like Aliens and Starship Troopers. Though what I find most interesting is the animation style–which is very warm and inviting–and […]
Don’t get me wrong, the latest trailer for Alien: Covenant looks pretty good–after all, it’s directed by Ridley Scott, so it goes without saying that cinematographically-speaking it’s going to be gorgeous. What bothers me a bit though is that it doesn’t seem to be doing anything particularly new. Out the box we get colonists, shots […]
As much as I don’t tend to be fond of violence for violence’s sake–I’m just dripping with contradictions–I have to admit that the latest trailer for Mortal Kombat X–featuring everyone’s favorite alien hunter/killer, the Predator–is all sorts of awesome. Now if we ever got something this kinetic out of the movies then I’d think the Predator […]
What I referring to is in interviews how Ridley Scott often says that he feels as if he’s taken the Aliens as far as he’s able–keeping in mind that Prometheus as originally written was firmly entrenched in the Alien universe, till Damon Lindelof joined the project and excised most of those elements from Jon Spaiths’ screenplay–yet he keeps […]
Bob Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis of studioADI, the practical special effects house behind a lot of your favorite movies, including the Predator and Alien films, as well as the upcoming Kickstarter-funded practical horror film, Harbinger Down) are two men that clearly enjoy their work. You can see the devotion and craftsmanship that their effects shop brings to […]
Welcome to “Postmortem,” a feature that goes behind the scenes of some of your favorite films, and asks: What the heck went wrong?! Paul W.S. Anderson (the Resident Evil films, “Soldier,” Event Horizon,” “Pompeii”), if you’ve ever seen him in a interview, like the one above, appears very knowledgable about the films he chooses to […]
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