After a long day on the golf course, Bill Murray returns home and stares sadly at his answering machine. He knows what’s in there: movie pitches he doesn’t want to hear, offers for cameos he won’t take. Instead he goes into his kitchen and gets a beer from the fridge then goes into his living …
Earlier this week the world got a “sneak peek” at Jurassic World, the fourth Jurassic Park film that unfortunately does NOT involve Velociraptor mercenaries. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say “WHAT THE FUCK! HOW IS THIS A THING?!” I’m not sure I need to say much more, but for the …
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I wish I could add Prince of Persia to this list. Jumper Jumper is a prime example of a bad producer/casting director thinking that Hayden Christensen was super hot coming off of Star Wars, thus making him an obvious choice for a super sweet movie about people who can teleport and stuff. Why I refuse …
Snowpiercer is a difficult movie to parse. Maybe that doesn’t matter so much. It resists deconstruction not because it doesn’t care for its basic conceit or that it is hollow and idea-less. More that its singular focus is on narrative propulsion. Snowpiercer exists within a fully-formed world, one that teaches us how to watch it …
This isn’t necessarily a new concept, but it’s one that in these two cases seem to be especially confusing choices. This Friday will see the release of what I can only assume will be a crappy movie based on characters that were only ever tolerable in the original films because of their minimum amount of …
