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Movie Curiosities: Wendell & Wild
November 1, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Wendell & Wild comes to us from director/co-writer/producer Henry Selick, mastermind of such perennial animated fantasy horror favorites as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline. And he’s working with star/co-writer/producer Jordan Peele, who revolutionized the industry with his unique brand of socially-minded horror comedies. And they made an animated film together with the stop-motion masters here in Sweet Home Portland.
Yeah, let’s fucking go. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Prey for the Devil
October 31, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
You’d think I would’ve learned by now. I’ve been doing this for a full third of my life, after all. But even after all the times I’ve come to regret it, there still comes an occasion — maybe once a year, if that — when I find myself getting hyped for a movie. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Triangle of Sadness
October 30, 2022 in Uncategorized
We got hit with a veritable deluge of movies for this Halloween weekend. What’s even crazier is that they’re not all horror movies — we’ve got Oscar contenders and foreign oddities and romcoms and superhero romps mixed in with the horror flicks at my local multiplex right now. So I went and played another round of “cinema grab bag” and what I got was so peculiar, I simply had to give it a look. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Ticket to Paradise
October 26, 2022 in Blogs
As Ticket to Paradise was crafted by the same writer/director who previously brought us Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again, it seems perfectly on-brand that we should have a romcom about family hijinks at a wedding in an exotic location. And of course I had to see the movie at a time when my own home and family are obsessed with preparations for an imminent wedding. As of this typing, my sister is bringing her fiancee home so they can be married in only a few short days.
So this one goes out to Deb and Michelle. I love you both. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Black Adam
October 22, 2022 in Blogs
The early years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — particularly during the first two phases — were a conflict between two very different types of studio executives. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Halloween Ends
October 16, 2022 in Blogs
It’s a tragic contradiction of modern filmmaking that every story needs an ending, and yet every movie studio needs a franchise that can keep a story going indefinitely, with each entry ending on a cliffhanger or some loose thread for the next sequel to pick up on. Until the franchise is no longer profitable and nobody cares anymore, at which point the series will inevitably be dropped and left unresolved. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Rosaline
October 14, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’ve heard it said that “Romeo and Juliet” has never gone dark. Ever since its premiere back in 1597, there’s been some stage somewhere in the world where the play is in production. That may perhaps be a slight exaggeration (I’m sure it must’ve shut down in 2020 like everything else did.), but it’s indisputably true that “Romeo and Juliet” is among the most popular and oft-performed works in the illustrious canon of Shakespeare. And the tradition of parodying and expanding upon the world of the play is almost as long. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Amsterdam
October 9, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I don’t like David O. Russell. I’ll grant that’s not quite as much of a controversial stance, given a long and horrible timeline of abuse toward his cast and crew, that time in 2003 when he physically assaulted Christopher Nolan, and that time in 2011 when he got away with sexually assaulting his 19-year-old transgender niece. (Yeah. That happened.) Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Hellraiser (2022)
October 8, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I should preface this by stating that I’ve only ever seen the first Hellraiser film when I reviewed it for a birthday project ten freaking years ago. I have no other exposure to the franchise, nothing else to base this review on. This is mostly because I knew from reputation that the sequels only decreased in quality over the years and I had no interest in seeing the first film’s ideas and themes diluted. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Bros
October 5, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Yeah, we’ve got to talk about this before we get to the actual movie. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Hocus Pocus 2
October 3, 2022 in Blogs
In recent years, Hocus Pocus has taken on a kind of cult status. It’s become a heavily polarizing film, without much in the way of overlap between those who think it’s an all-time Halloween classic (indeed, I have multiple friends who call Hocus Pocus their all-time favorite movie) and those who think it’s a steaming shitpile. It’s a heated and ongoing controversy as to why people like this movie, whether it’s a legitimately bad movie, and whether there’s more to the appeal than mere childhood nostalgia. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Smile
October 2, 2022 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Congratulations are in order for the C-suite at Paramount. Top Gun: Maverick saved the studio right when Warner Bros. Discovery imploded and now Paramount is no longer in the basement. Hell, maybe Viacom could purchase WBD — picking up DC Comics would make up nicely for how they inexplicably failed to purchase Marvel right after their success with Phase I and just before the MCU took over the goddamn world. Read the rest of this entry →
