The first time I saw the trailer for 2015’s?Cinderella, I wondered what else could make the story worth seeing. Almost every aspect of the?well-known story (at least the 1950 Walt Disney version) was captured in the trailer. Were they trying to convince parents that they could take their children? Were they buying into the ‘show…
One, two;?Freddy’s coming for you. That’s it. If done properly, in that sing-song, little-kid-nursery-rhyme-double-Dutch kind of way, that’s all you have to say and immediately, horror fans will know what you’re talking about. And grown men may shudder. Those words (and the remaining twenty-two that finish out the mythic urban-legendary poem) and a few wordless…
I was skeptical of George Miller’s sequel to his?Road Warrior?films after so many years away. Seriously, he made?Babe?and two?Happy Feet?movies more recently than he told a Mad Max story. How could?Fury Road?be any good? But as I admitted here, I thought the film was the best I’d seen this year – and it’s still my…
One of the best films of the vampire genre–that most folks have never even heard of–is Near Dark, but it’s revered by bloodsucking devotees. Jason Norton explains why.
I recently caught up with Brad Coley, the writer/director of?Frank the Bastard?and a San Franciscan by way of New England. In his haunting tale of dark secrets and unresolved pain, he’s wrapped a deeply spiritual exploration of life as we know it within a murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your…
Let?s go ahead and get this out of the way now: you should run?not walk?to your nearest movie theater and go see Pixar?s latest film, Inside Out. It?s a unique and powerful tale that thrusts emotions and feelings into the spotlight, where they shine (in some cases literally) for the world to see. The premise…
I feel like I need to get this off my chest.
I hate zombie movies.
There. I said it. But then there’s Maggie.
Foxcatcher is as difficult to write about as it was to watch. I have seen it three or four times now, and it does not lessen the difficulty of watching such a tense and dramatic film.
When we meet Mad Max, he is wrestling with a vision of the past. He hears cries for help, and sees those he has lost along the way.
There?s much more intent in the heart of Rogers than in many other superheroes I admire. Rogers is the puny, underdeveloped kid who wants so badly to defend his country but can?t. He?s not accidentally struck with a gamma ray, spider bite, or blinding chemicals. He chooses to serve.
