Picture this: It’s 1984. You’re a movie fan despairing over the fact that the horror genre is dying. Sure, Halloween was great and all but you’ve seen nothing but copycats since then. Slasher movies with obnoxious and obvious titles like Don’t Answer the Phone and When a Stranger Calls have become the norm. You sort of enjoy the Friday the...
2015 August
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I Never Saw Fantastic Four, or: Why Flops Don’t Matter Anymore
“Reef? I got a reef. I got reefs comin’ outta my ASS!!”—Two-Time Academy Award Winner Marlon Brando I haven’t written much about movies this year because I haven’t seen much. The last film I saw in the cinema was Mad Max Fury Road and you cannot convince me any film released theatrically since is worth...
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Rectify concluded it’s third season on Thursday night and I’m sure that virtually none of you were aware of this. Hell, you probably weren’t even aware of its existence. It’s on a channel that everyone has but no one watches (Sundance), it doesn’t have an immediately engaging hook like ‘Sopranos in Middle Earth‘ or ‘Mr. Chips...
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“What went wrong?” That appears to be the question on everyone’s mind in regards to Fox’s reboot of The Fantastic Four. The movie has been surrounded by a cloud of bad buzz ever since it was first announced. There were the rumors of director Josh Trank’s increasingly destructive behavior, then a trailer that received, shall we...
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