Category: Movies

The ‘Future Man’ trailer.

My wife feels that this is an extremely cynical TV concept: the people making Future Man realize that we’re all happy to complain about reboots and remakes and whatnot, but we still watch them.  So why not lampshade it?  And this absolutely lampshades it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJaUfpbEYIU

I mean, it name-checks The Last Starfighter.  They’re absolutely leaning into the criticism. It’s rather invigorating, really. Then again, I’m the nostalgia-target here, so maybe you should take it into account.

The Marvel’s Runaways trailer.

I keep asking myself about whether maybe I should pick up Hulu. It does have stuff that I want to see. Maybe what I really want is an all-streaming network service where Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, and a couple smaller streamers offered me a bulk deal on all of them.  Hey!  They could also bundle in the Big Three networks.

Yes, I know that I’m describing cable television.  The thing is, I don’t need sixty million channels and I don’t even need sixty. I’d like the three network channels, the three I’ve just mentioned, and I guess Fox/CW. And a stream-only version of PBS. Everything else is ‘meh.’ Continue reading The Marvel’s Runaways trailer.

SPOON! …The Tick returns in February.

February 23rd, 2018, to be exact.  I ended up binge-watching the first half of The Tick, after all; or at least I slammed two or three episodes at a time.  I’m probably going to watch the second half in one fell swoop, because I really really want to see evil impact Destiny, and bounce.  I am adamant about this, in fact.  There has to be a particular payoff, and those of you who have watched the first half probably can guess what I think that it should be.  While embracing the superior ethos and moral sense of the Tick himself, of course*.

Can’t wait.

Moe Lane

*We are not really required to take the Tick entirely seriously, but nothing I’ve seen so far suggests that we are to take him lightly.

Movie of the Week: Highlander.

I was thinking about Highlander just now, and I’m not sure why: specifically, the duel scene. I had this bit pegged as being in France, for some reason.  And being considerably less random murder-y.  Guess I’ll have to watch it a few more times to remember it all properly.

And so adieu to Wonder Woman.  No, actually, I don’t think that they’d get into a fight in the first place.  Wonder Woman doesn’t strike me as the sort to get into random fights with fellow immortals.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass started filming.

Over in Philadelphia.  Coming Soon notes that Glass is a sequel to both Split and Unbreakable — sorry, but this is now past the Spoiler Zone — which means that I’m going to go have to watch Split now.  Yeah, yeah, I know.  But in my defense, I stuck with M. Night Shyamalan for about three movies longer than he, strictly speaking, deserved. Well, that’s kind of unfair.  The Village wasn’t awful, although the guy running the place was a horrible human being who deserved a bad end.

Still, apparently Shyamalan’s maybe back to making movies that don’t suck? Because the possibility of that happening is pretty spiffy, thanks. Especially when you realize who the title is referring to.

“Oh, the Ringworld is Unstable / But It Won’t Be Shown on Cable…*”

…Bezos optioned up this fable
And that’s good enough for me!

Gimme that old-time space opera
Gimme that old-time space opera
Gimme that old-time space opera
On Amazon TV. Continue reading “Oh, the Ringworld is Unstable / But It Won’t Be Shown on Cable…*”

The latest Darkest Hour trailer.

Here is the thing: this is one of the best makeup jobs I have ever seen.

Seriously, look at these three Gary Oldman pictures.

I can believe that the guy in the middle is the same guy as the one on the right. But neither looks like the guy on the left.  At least, to me. As I said, this is a whizzo makeup job; because while Gary Oldman doesn’t look like he normally does neither does he look like he’s wearing prostheses, or whatever they did to give him jowls and a wider face generally.  It’s really very impressive, honestly.

Anyway, Darkest Hour is coming out during Thanksgiving, so I dunno when I’m going to see it.