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Movie Curiosities: The Boogeyman
June 12, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Oh, look what we’ve got here. A movie that got picked up by Fox just before the company got sold off to Disney, so the Mouse shunted it to the side for a while. Then Disney decided to make use of what table scraps they had and figured that Hulu would be a great place to drop this weird little horror film they had inadvertently picked up. This should sound familiar, we’ve already seen this play out numerous times in the past three years. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
June 11, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
There’s something I’ve been wondering for a good many years now: What the fuck is Paramount/Hasbro doing? Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Moon Garden
June 6, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Moon Garden is an Oscilloscope release, so it’s exactly the kind of shoestring indie picture too small and weird to get much of any attention outside the hardcore arthouse film crowd. Indeed, the highest-profile name attached to this is writer/director/editor/exec producer Ryan Stevens Harris, previously best known as one of the two editors on Moonfall. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
June 5, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Avengers: Infinity War ended on a cliffhanger, with the promise of a second half coming the next year. And I said “It’s okay, for half a movie.” Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: You Hurt My Feelings
May 29, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
As a general rule, precious little gets on my nerves like characters who make their own problems for no reason whatsoever. It’s gotten to be an especially huge problem with romantic comedies and dramedies, as so many of those are about beautiful white people living in beautiful New York homes, stressing over their First World Problems for two hours’ runtime. Most of us are only one bad day away from losing our jobs, losing our homes, and/or facing a lifetime of poverty due to legal fees and/or medical bills. I don’t want to hear about anyone getting upset because they’re getting older, their job sucks, and/or their marriage is hitting a rough patch when they’re otherwise perfectly well-off. Shut up and deal with it. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Little Mermaid (2023)
May 28, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
It feels like ever since this whole live-action remake craze began, I’ve been begging for Disney to stop trying to improve upon their beloved nostalgic favorites from the past 30 years and turn their attention toward that ’70s/’80s period when nobody knew what to do after Uncle Walt died. I don’t need to know what Lilo & Stitch would look like as a live-action/CGI hybrid, I need to know what Bedknobs and Broomsticks would look like if it wasn’t incoherent candy-coated sludge. Shit, let’s have another adaptation of The Prydain Chronicles — The Black Cauldron was a half-baked misfire and the beloved source material is right fucking there! Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Master Gardener
May 23, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Master Gardener is the latest from writer/director Paul Schrader. That name sounds familiar, where have I heard that before? checks IMDb Oh yeah, he made The Card Counter. That makes entirely too much sense. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Fast X
May 20, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Back in 2018, there was a movie called Avengers: Infinity War. It was billed as the first of a sprawling two-part epic — alongside Avengers: Endgame the following year — that would wrap up roughly two dozen films and supplemental materials across a decade of history as the dominant force of global pop culture. But of course Avengers: Endgame wasn’t really the end of the MCU, even though it maybe arguably should’ve been. Even at the time, we knew that Phase Four was mapped out and in production, and Phase Five is well underway as of this typing. (Though presently on hold for the ongoing WGA strike, but that’s another story.) The point being that Endgame was only ever going to be a transition into a new era, and Hollywood was always going to keep the MCU rolling for as long as it was going to take in money. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
May 10, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
In a weird sort of way, I felt strangely compelled to review this movie precisely because I might just be the least-qualified person to give it a shot. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
May 9, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
“The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” was a failure. A self-indulgent, pointless, shrill, boring, deeply unfunny failure. But it was at least an informative failure, because it exposed something of paramount importance regarding the Guardians of the Galaxy: They desperately need a crisis. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Beau is Afraid
May 7, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Ari Aster is a prestige horror filmmaker who’s made some of A24’s most notable and profitable offerings in recent memory. Incidentally, A24 is the same studio that came out with Everything Everywhere All At Once, a hugely sprawling and heady magnum opus that turned into the year’s most celebrated and decorated cinematic sucker-punch. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Sisu
May 6, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Time to go Nazi huntin’, y’all! Read the rest of this entry →
