When it was originally announced that Zack Snyder would be helming the reboot of the Superman franchise I was pretty optimistic. Sure, he had a stumble with the style over substance Sucker Punch, derived from an original idea by him and his wife Deborah, but he had a solid comic track record. His adaptation of …
I kind of blew out all the anniversary films and throwbacks on my High Spots this week (check them out!) so I thought I’d throw you five flicks that just hit Netflix instead. The Disaster Artist – The clout for this film was huge heading into the Golden Globes and after James Franco’s win and …
Ten years ago this week The Cell and Immortals director Tarsem released a film called The Fall, a gorgeous spectacle of cinema that gets zero recognition, even with its deep tie-ins to the beginning of film itself. To explain the plot loosely, the film’s main setting is a hospital in the 1920s where a film …
Every so often a film is made that really feels like it taps into why you yourself are a cinema lover. One of the plot devices that finds a way straight to my heart is a film about the love of film and the creation of films, which is why I adore recent ones like …
Horror fans are a very particular bunch with particular taste. Not to say we’re picky – you need to watch everything to reserve the right to bitch, but, man, will we have opinions about it. The more consistent debates come with horror franchises like Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13th, aside from the …
If you’re a film fan and you haven’t heard of writer-director Jeff Nichols yet, well, you have not been paying attention close enough. Making his debut film just over ten years ago, Shotgun Stories was one I picked up in my video store days, a well written volatile story with a blistering performance from Michael …
It seems like the absolute perfect week to cover this, with Avengers: Infinity War cusping on one billion dollars (insert Dr. Evil clip here), to praise the beginning of this whole Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man, as well as the bookend on the Tony Stark trilogy. Both films celebrate anniversaries as Iron Man 3 came …
Director James Mangold is now very much a household name after making the Johnny Cash bio-pic Walk The Line, a killer western adaptation with 3:10To Yuma and two Wolverine films which include the absolutely incredible Logan. Back in 2003, he was a director with a couple of great films under his belt like Cop Land and …
Whenever I’m racking my brain for a film to talk about on these pieces I usually hit up a website to see what movies were released on this day five, ten, fifteen or more years ago and sometimes I get really giddy when I see certain titles. Today’s film is one of those, and one …
It’s only my second week of doing these throwback recommendations and I already kind of stumped myself. It’s not that I am at a loss for any titles to bring up, it really just comes down to relevancy. First in my mind, I wanted to talk about Rob Zombie’s House Of 1000 Corpses, which celebrates …
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