Category: Movies

Come for the argument about whether Han activated the lightsaber for Kylo…

…stay for the sight of people arguing whether non-Force Sensitive people can or cannot activate a lightsaber in the first place.  Which they can, of course.  It’s just that you need to be one of Star Wars’ genetic aristocrats to activate and use one without carving chunks of your own body off*.

There. That should amuse my readership for the rest of the night.

Moe Lane

*While we’re on the subject: they had clones. They had prosthetic limbs that were more or less functional replacements, including pain sensors.  Why didn’t they just grow Luke a new hand.  Or, heck, Anakin a new body?

“The 100 Best Horror Movies of all Time.”

The 100 Best Horror Movies of all Time is a remarkably good list, as long as you understand that one of the points of lists like these is to start interesting and entertaining fights over which movies were unfairly excluded, and which movies were even more unfairly included.  People love to argue over movies, and they love to argue about genre art, and they particularly love to argue over genre movies.  As an example: if you want to exclude parodies like Shaun of the Dead, fine.  But you can’t then include The House in the Woods in your list after all.  It is simply not done, old bean.

But this is a quibble: there’s some very good-and-concise descriptions of some seminal horror films at that link, and said list is more than happy to judge splatter flicks on their own merits.  You may indeed find some suggestions there for films that you might want to see.  So check it out.

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The “The Vault” Horror-Heist trailer.

This looks interesting.  You don’t see too many crime flicks that turn into horror flicks about twenty minutes in.  From Dusk Till Dawn is about the only one that immediately comes to mind… oh, wait, that one about the hijacked cruise ship. :click click click: Deep Rising.  And Amazon was not impressed by it, let me tell you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITm3NSSAq-s

Anyway, The Vault‘s coming out… sometime this year?

Potential John Wick universe spinoff movie announced: Ballerina (female lead).

I’ll allow it.

Lionsgate has won a bidding war to pick up a female-centric spec action script titled Ballerina that will serve as a platform for a possible John Wick spinoff.

Basil Iwanyk, whose Thunder Road banner is behind the hit Wick action franchise starring Keanu Reeves, will produce Ballerina.

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Tweet of the Day, When Elves Go Bad edition.

Or, more accurately: When actors decide that they miss those sweet, sweet genre movie blockbuster paychecks.  Oh, don’t get me wrong: Hugo Weaving clearly had fun as the Red Skull (shame that they killed him off right away).  But the cash certainly helped.

Does anybody actually WANT another Terminator film at this point?

I liked Terminator and Terminator 2, and stopped caring after that. So perhaps I am jaundiced, or cynical.  But I still can’t quite grasp what the attraction is for this:

[James] Cameron is currently discussing the possibility of updating the franchise with a trio of films. “I am in discussions with David Ellison, who is the current rights holder globally for the Terminator franchise and the rights in the U.S. market revert to me under U.S. copyright law in a year and a half so he and I are talking about what we can do. Right now we are leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it.”

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The ‘Message from the King’ trailer.

I get a certain Taken vibe from this one.  Which is not a problem, because I rather liked Taken and the difference here is that Mr. King’s certain set of skills is being used in a more retaliatory fashion. Plus, we can see Chadwick Boseman in action before Black Panther comes out next year.

Message from the King comes to Netflix on August 4.