I took a look at the first two episodes of Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and it’s a great looking show, perhaps the most ambitious anthology series made for television. Which should be expected with Del Toro executive producing and having directors like Guillermo Navarro (a renown cinematographer who has worked on 50 feature […]
I’m likely speaking to the converted at this point but I typically can’t stand remakes, particularly those that don’t do anything different than the original. Movies that do that aren’t worth the celluloid they’re filmed on. I bring this up because recently I learned that there’s a Japanese version of Vincenzo Natali’s Cube, which I […]
You can say a lot of things about Netflix, but they do Stephen King adaptations right. So far they’ve done two, 1922 and Gerald’s Game, and both are really, really good perhaps for the reason that they concentrate on human stories with supernatural overtones, as opposed to supernatural stories that revolve around people. The latest […]
I’ve considered Adolph Hitler and the rise of Nazism fascinating for quite awhile now, though not for what I believe are typical reasons. What interests me is that there was literally no way Hitler could have done what he did without the defacto acquiescence of the German people (at least initially, before his mad enterprise […]
Alex Garland‘s (the writer of Sunshine, 28 Days Later, The Beach, etc) directoral debut, Ex Machina, looks at least superficially like it covers similar territory as Transcendence, though hopefully more successfully. That being said, I assume it’s only coincidence that Ex Machina feels very similar to another film that came out earlier this year, The Machine, the trailer which […]
It seems that every studio is trying to produce the next “Hunger Games” or “Twilight,” no wonder considering that the two films so far released have earned close to a billion dollars while the five films that make up The Twilight Saga have earned significantly more. The thing is, for every “Hunger Games” or “Twilight” […]
“I thought I told you to mind your own business. You are a Busy Betty. And I don’t like Busy Betties.” –The Pale Man There’s a memorable scene in the first ‘Matrix’ film where Morpheus gives Neo the choice of taking the blue pill, which would mean that he could return to his everyday “life” […]
I don’t see how I missed this one. The last film Vincenzo Natali released was “Splice,” which was executive produced by Guillermo Del Toro. It’s a fascinating film, even though you could see that the director didn’t quite make the point that he was working at. His film before Splice was “Cypher,” and while it’s […]
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