I enjoyed Get Out, the introduction of Jordan Peele as a director. While it was a confident debut, it was also somewhat derivative. Us is another matter entirely. It possesses the same confidence of Peele’s debut, but moves with an elan bordering on bravado because let’s be clear, Us is more complex and that it […]
I have to admit that I was initially a bit lukewarm about Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone. And that’s less a commentary of Peele’s skills as a writer (I assume he’ll be writing some of the episodes) more than Rod Serling was so iconic that I’m not at all comfortable with the idea […]
Since I mentioned Jordan Peele yesterday in my post on his upcoming Twilight Zone reboot I’ve been watching a few (Keegan-Michael) Key and Peele videos from their Comedy Central Show. On the whole they’re pretty funny, though I found the clip below a little hard to watch (which is really odd when you take into […]
The Twilight Zone is a tricky franchise to revisit. There’ve been numerous versions since the original, which ran in 1959-1964, but none have captured the spirit of the zeitgeist quite like it. The most recent version is being spearheaded by Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) though I suspect that it won’t be able to escape […]
A few moments ago the first trailer for Us dropped, which is the followup to Jordan Peele’s uber-successful debut, Get Out and…I’m intrigued. And I get the feeling what’s happening is that the family in the trailer are being menaced by alternate future versions of themselves–which doesn’t quite explain how they’re able to scale trees like […]
You might not be aware that but Jordan Peele, the director of the breakout hit Get Out, is preparing it’s follow up, Us, also for Blumhouse. It’s also a horror movie–or perhaps should I say ‘social thriller’–starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke (both most recently seen in Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War) What the […]
I admit to being influenced by reviews a bit more than perhaps should in that if someome has a terrible time watching this or that, while it by no means guarantees that I won’t see it, though it does make it much more likely. For instance. I was genuinely curious about The Bye Bye Man, […]
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