Category: Movies

I am uncertain about the need for a Death Wish remake.

The new Death Wish is apparently coming out November 22nd, and it’s starring Bruce Willis.  I say ‘apparently’ because it’s been a troubled project, with multiple directors and whatnot. I also have to wonder: does it make sense to make a movie like that, these days? Continue reading I am uncertain about the need for a Death Wish remake.

Confirmation of Dark Tower Easter Egg. [Spoiler]

You may find it here.  Note that I’m doing a spoiler warning here, despite the fact that it won’t be a spoiler to a lot of people.  Personally, I’m happy enough if The Dark Tower itself is good and the characters are done right, but I have no quarrel with anybody who loved the books and is upset that the movie is going to screw them up like they always do.  Because that’s the default option for what happens when Hollywood grabs a book.

Of course, I dunno when I’m going to get a chance to see the movie. Pennsic’s started, and we’re experimenting with doing a weekend trip with the kids. So, obviously, that’s what I’m doing Saturday and Sunday.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS SEQUEL” comic oh never mind.

Yeah, sure, that’s OK.

A sequel to Tim Burton’s 1993 stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas is on the way, but it’s going to be in comic form, according to THR. Manga publisher Tokyopop has nabbed the rights for the film follow-up. In Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero’s Journey, we get a chance to catch up with arguably everyone’s favorite character, Zero the ghost dog, Jack Skellington’s loyal companion. The story will be about Zero’s adventures while lost in Christmas Town.

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Warner Brothers Wants Oscar Gold for Wonder Woman.

Well… as my father used to say: it’s good to want.

Variety reports that the studio is considering a “formidable awards-season campaign” for the film, targeting both a Best Picture nomination for the film and Best Director nomination for Patty Jenkins. To date, only four women have been nominated for the Best Director Oscar: Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties), Jane Campion (The Piano), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), and Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), with Bigelow being the only winner. Jenkins’ first film, Monster, secured Charlize Theron her own Best Actress Academy Award.

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The Killer Klowns Orchestral Soundtrack Indiegogo.

I was tipped to the Killer Klowns Orchestral Soundtrack Indiegogo by Constant Reader BigGator5. Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I’ve never seen the flick.  But, well, this fellow is in some indefinable way firmly Of My People:

Tribal obligations cannot be denied. Besides, I suspect that this will indeed tickle some of my readers’ fancies, or at least their wallets.  Certainly there’s some enthusiasm about having a new Killer Klowns soundtrack kicked up a notch…

Moe Lane

PS: Deadline’s in a week.

Western Civilization decides not to fall: Dunkirk tops the Emoji movie.

OK, lemme just say: yes, I am being a snob here. I admit that.  I think that making a movie out of a bunch of the pictographs that you have on your smartphone starts out as a dumb idea, and that I am not giving the movie anything like a fair chance, and that people who liked the movie and it’s OK that they like it because who the Hell am I to judge them? might be justifiably suspicious that I am being a snob about them, too. I cop to all of this.

But it still would have been a bit personally unsettling to have one of the most fascinating movies about war in the last forty years not beat out a movie that has a talking poop icon in it, second week or no. Fortunately for my sanity, Dunkirk beat out Emoji, so I can stop being an elitist jackwagon about it.  You can’t really expect a flick like Dunkirk to hit #1 three weekends running, especially in the summer.  And, as a lot of people noted, there aren’t that many movies for kids out there in the cinemas right now.

So there’s that.

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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