Category: Movies

Movie of the Week: What We Do In The Shadows. (Free with Amazon Prime!)

“What We Do In The Shadows” is a mockumentary about vampires that was made by Taika Waititi. I’ve wanted to see it ever since I watched Waititi make a no-fooling good Thor movie, and hey! It’s free with Amazon Prime! So I figured I’d let people know.

That’s pretty much it. I like it when it’s easy to cross something off of the list like this. It’s refreshingly straightforward.

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Third Cloverfield movie is coming out 4/28/2018.

They’re already starting in on the viral marketing stuff, too. Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I saw Cloverfield (enjoyed it a lot), but not 10 Cloverfield Lane. I’m not entirely certain why. Maybe because I just like giant monster flicks more than I do …what 10 Cloverfield Lane was. Certainly I made it a point to go see virtually every giant monster movie that’s made it to the big screen, and when Pacific Rim Uprising comes out in March I’m absolutely going to be there. And that’s with me knowing that it’s very possibly going to be horrible.

Well. As horrible as a movie can be when it involves giant robots punching giant robots in the face, as Honest Trailers put it.  The essentially awesomeness of such a thing is difficult to debase.

The New Tomb Raider trailer.

Like Geeks Are Sexy, I must admit: this looks better than the last trailer.

It is also absolutely based off of the 2013 video game. I thought so last year, but it’s pretty obvious now. I don’t know if this means that it will suck, however: the plot of the video game was looking pretty cinematic when I got defeated by the quick time events. Although now I’m tempted to give the game another shot.

Anyway: this is coming out in March.

Amazon approves Season 2 of The Tick.

All official-like: “The creator of the series, Ben Edlund (Firefly, Supernatural, Gotham), will return along with leads Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy) as The Tick and Griffin Newman (Search Party) as Arthur, with additional casting to be announced.” Ten new episodes, filming starts this year, and the show will be shown next year on Amazon Prime (obviously). And, of course, this is unsurprising: lots of people loved the Tick when it came out last year. I ended up getting sucked into it myself, and I plan to combine the second part of Season 1 with my exercise regimen when it comes out on February 23rd*.  So, really: no-brainer.

I haven’t decided whether I want to see the weirder superheroes and supervillains, though.  Well. “Weird” is probably relative, here.

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*Which means that I have to restart my exercise regimen.  Which I really need to do.  Fortunately, at least I have tons of TV shows to watch while doing it.

HBO demonstrates why it’s part of the “Fahrenheit 451” problem.

Hysterical, no? Seeing as they’re the ones making a Fahrenheit 451 movie.

[Michael B.] Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by [Michael] Shannon. Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) stars as Clarisse, an informant caught between the competing interests of Montag and Beatty.

The cast also includes Lilly Singh (Bad Moms) as Raven, a tabloid reporter who works with the fire department to spread the ministry’s propaganda by broadcasting its book-burning raids to fans.

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Marvel talking about standalone Black Widow flick.

Alternate title: Marvel tacitly concedes Black Widow will survive Infinity War.

Marvel is finally pushing ahead with the highly anticipated “Black Widow” standalone movie starring Scarlett Johansson, with Jac Schaeffer penning the script.

Sources say this is still very early development, as the film has no greenlight, but naming a writer is the closest the studio has come to moving forward on a standalone pic. Marvel President Kevin Feige met with several candidates before tapping Schaeffer, and Marvel execs met with Johansson to discuss what they wanted from a “Black Widow” writer.

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