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 […]
XX, not to be confused with XXX: The Return of Zander Cage, is likely named after the female sex chromosome, an indicator this anthology (in this instance a movie composed of a series of shorts) will be directed by entirely by women. Though what I am most concerned about is if the movie will […]
If there were a overarching theme to Time Enough At Last, the eighth episode of the first season of The Twilight Zone, it would have to be that no matter how bad things may at first seem, they can get much, much worse. After all, you have to keep in mind that about midway though the episode a […]
“Bedtime is at 9:30. It’s probably best that you don’t come out of your room after that.” Oh yeah, nothing at all eerie about that. No reason to suspect that something’s not quite right with Grandpa and Grandma. When I heard that quote, taken verbatim from the trailer from M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming horror […]
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes – Final Trailer I am just not buying it. Sure, there was that genetically-engineered virus in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes which reduced the human population significantly enough that the apes could gain a foothold, as well as increasing their intelligence to such a degree that it […]
The original “Planet of the Apes” was based upon the novel, “La Planète des Singes,” by Pierre Boulle, with a screenplay by Rod Sterling (“Requiem for a Heavyweight,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Night Gallery,” etc). The original film, I can’t speak as much about the sequels (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, “Escape From the Planet […]
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