I tend to dislike reboots with a passion because – more often than not – they tend to either be cynical money grabs or retreads of what we’ve already seen. In other words, typically wastes of time. For instance the reboot of Total Recall (2012) wasn’t terrible but the original, directed by Paul Verhoeven (Robocop), […]
Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You is an ambitious movie, way more ambitions that anything a first-time director has any right to tackle (prior Riley co-directed a short with Chris Wroubel). Lakeith – or is that “LaKeith? – Stanfield (Knives Out) is Cassius Green, a guy who’s moving through life in a perpetual state of […]
The Car: Road To Revenge let’s be clear, is a bad movie. I don’t say that to dismiss the hundreds of people who likely worked hard to make this movie possible but because it steals liberally from both Robocop and The Crow (both remarkably better movies) yet manages not to do that very well. The […]
What is it with the Alien and Predator franchises? It almost feels like they’re being deliberately sabotaged (few other things can explain why Ridley Scott is so intent on undermining a series he himself helped to create) by some really bizarre decisions on the part of the people directing them, and it’s a pity. In […]
“RoboCop 2.0 is new, and not exactly improved, but it’s still worth the upgrade.” I have an iPad 2, and I really liked iOS 6, and was perfectly content with it. Soon enough, Apple came out with iOS 7, and when I upgraded I didn’t like it. It was all shiny and colorful, but different […]
And as far as I am aware, they still do though it’s also the name of a studio that seems to operate on a similar principal. What they are known for doing is taking a more established property, like “Battleship,” “Robocop” or “Pacific Rim” and regurgitating “American Warship (which was called ‘American Battleship’ before Universal’s […]
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