Category: Movies

New clip from “The Shape of Water.”

The Shape of Water is Guillermo del Toro’s… well, it’s probably not going to be del Toro’s take on “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” but I look forward to seeing it on December 8th anyway.  Despite the fact that the art critics are raving about it: they’re going into the theater for one thing, and I’m going in for something entirely else. It’s no particular skin off of my nose if they find art in the creature feature flick that I’m watching. Continue reading New clip from “The Shape of Water.”

So they want to do a girl-only version of Lord of the Flies.

I am simultaneously intrigued and cynical about this.

Bee Season and What Maisie Knew directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel are set to write and direct a female-centric film version of the iconic 1954 William Golding novel Lord of the Flies for Warner Bros., according to Deadline. The duo will reportedly stay true to the novel, except that the children who are stranded on the island will be girls.

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Tweet of the Day, Lucille Ball Was A Bit Of A Overwhelming Media Force edition.

First, this.

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The ‘Killing Gunther’ trailer.

…Well.

It’s a Schwarzenegger movie that’s about a step and a half above direct-to-video. But it’s apparently being done in documentary(?) form?  Either that, or it’s routinely breaking the fourth wall. I’m going to assume documentary, or maybe reality TV show.

Which admittedly makes all it more interesting than I expected it to be.  Or perhaps ‘quirky.’  Quirky pseudo-documentaries operate under their own rules.

Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro coming back to theaters for two nights.

This… is something to consider.  Subtitled, of course. Yes, I’m afraid that I’m a bit of a snob about that sort of thing.

This was one of the first anime I’d ever seen, and it triggered a bit of a paradigm shift in my opinion of animated films.  I’m not an otaku or anything like that, but I will happily sit down and watch Miyazaki’s stuff. So I may very well go see this in theaters.  I’m glad that said theaters have realized that events like this are an opportunity to get more butts in seats, too…

Some clips from the upcoming “IT” movie.

I rather badly want this movie to not suck. I mean, I REALLY want this movie not to suck. IT is maybe the best Stephen King book I’ve ever read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10gfbsXSf2k

But it could suck.  And that’s what worries me.  The casting looks good, but the entire first movie is literally about children being menaced and threatened, which is pretty raw stuff for modern audiences (even if they take out That Scene From The Book).  But if the movie hesitates on putting those kids through the wringer, it’s going to suck.  Horribly.

Please God, don’t let it suck.

RIP, Tobe Hooper (1943-2017).

Best known for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, probably: but my two favorite Tobe Hooper movies are Lifeforce and Poltergeist.  I should note that the latter absolutely scared the [expletive deleted] out of me when I saw it for the first time, which I believe was exactly what Mr. Hooper was trying to do with that movie.  He also directed “Dancing With Myself,” in case you were wondering what tonight’s music video was.

Rest in peace, Tobe.  My prayers and good wishes for his family and loved ones.

Hey, how was The Hitman’s Bodyguard?

The Hitman’s Bodyguard suffers from a pretty stark dichotomy on Rotten Tomatoes: the critics hated it, the audiences enjoyed it.  Who’s right? I ask because my August movie watching schedule kind of crashed and burned, along with the last three movies that I was planning to see.  Although I might still try to catch a night showing of Atomic Blonde tomorrow. I haven’t decided yet.

Anyway, did the movie suck?