If you can believe it, there was a time when a movie would come out, end up being a massive success critically and commercially, and then that would be it. In this day and age of sequels, prequels, and franchises built on just about anything, it’s honestly pretty difficult to find a popular movie that … Read more
With zombie-centric horror back in the news (is it ever not in the news??) we’re all back to debating the pros and cons of certain types of undead monsters and the various infections, incantations, or pathogenic spores that can resurrect them. Whether you’re a fast zombie fan or a slow zombie defender, we can all … Read more
There’s nothing the internet loves more than turning a large group of subjective opinions into something that looks like a consensus. Take a bunch of reviews, assign each a numerical value, average it out, and boom — suddenly art is now math. Of course, not even the most widely beloved movie in history is widely beloved … Read more
In the 1998 movie Sliding Doors, a woman played by Gwyneth Paltrow narrowly makes it onto a train — and, in an alternate storyline that plays out parallel to the first, misses the train. The whole film goes back and forth between the two Paltrows (the one who caught that subway, and the one who didn’t) … Read more
Hollywood makes so many comic-book movies. Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, independents … sometimes it seems like that’s all they make anymore. That’s not true, of course, but it feels true. Comic-book movies are everywhere, ever present, as ubiquitous in multiplexes as ugly carpets and that delicious artificial butter that comes out of that metal spout next to the napkins and the straws. Superhero fatigue is ubiquitous … Read more
Disney has built a cottage industry taking their classic animated features and remaking them in live-action. They do it so often and with so much financial success, it makes you wonder … why hasn’t anyone tried to do the reverse? Sound ridiculous? Maybe it is. But it also sounded ridiculous when Disney decided to make The Lion King — a movie … Read more