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Movie Curiosities: Nine Days
August 9, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Where oh where do I even begin with this one? Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Suicide Squad
August 8, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
One more time for those in the back: DC/WB have no idea what the hell they’re doing. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Lorelei
August 7, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
This one comes at the request of my father, who heard about Lorelei from a friend of his in the makeup department. Of course I’m always happy to check out a film set and shot in my neck of the woods, and I’m happy to report that the makeup looked… I mean, it was okay. I’m no expert, but it looked perfectly fine for a movie without any noteworthy makeup effects. Except maybe for those last few minutes, but that scene was set and shot in Los Angeles (and also a bar in Sacramento), so it probably wasn’t Claire. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Blood Red Sky
August 6, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Blood Red Sky is set on an airplane, out on a transatlantic flight from Germany to New York. In short order, the plane gets hijacked by a group of terrorists led by Dominic Purcell in the role of “Berg”. The other noteworthy terrorist is a German homicidal psychopath codenamed “Eightball”, played by Alexander Scheer. It’s not exactly clear who these terrorists are or what they want, but they’re holding the passengers hostage and turning the plane around toward London. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: The Green Knight
August 1, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Pete’s Dragon (2016) is the best film to come out of Disney’s live-action remake trend, and is indeed the only one of the lineup that is unambiguously good. I’ve said this for years, and I’m astounded that the movie remains so criminally underappreciated. Likewise, David Lowery is a tremendously underrated filmmaker who deserves far more work, and The Green Knight is further proof why. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Jungle Cruise
July 31, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The Haunted Mansion was Plan A. Most people don’t know that, and yet we can’t forget it. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins
July 25, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
In a previous blog entry, I asked a lot of questions with regard to Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins. One of the big ones was the question of how the GI Joe franchise can still be relevant in the 21st century. How to make the conflict of an international paramilitary task force versus a global terrorist network into escapist four-color kid-friendly fun, after… well, everything over the past two decades. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Old
July 24, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
First came The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, when M. Night Shyamalan was pop culture’s newfound golden boy. He was the next great wickedly intelligent filmmaker, known for putting diabolically clever twist endings at the end of his films. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Pig
July 21, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Pig was crafted by writer/director Michael Sarnoski, here making his feature debut. Nicolas Cage stars and produces, with supporting turns from Alex Wolff (a prestige horror darling after his turn in Hereditary), and veteran character actor Adam Arkin. The film comes to us from Neon, the studio that’s made a reputation for itself as a purveyor of cinema arthouse sucker-punches ever since Parasite took home Best Picture.
Also, Cage plays a reclusive truffle forager who’s after his beloved pig. And the film was set and shot in sweet home Portland. You’re damn right I’m on board for this, let’s fucking go! Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Space Jam: A New Legacy
July 17, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Disney put twenty painful years into making a film adaptation of Artemis Fowl. When the film was finally completed and everybody knew it was a steaming pile of shit, Disney kept pushing back the release date until they straight-up cancelled the theatrical release altogether and unloaded it directly onto Disney+. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Gunpowder Milkshake
July 16, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Gunpowder Milkshake comes to us from writer/director Navot Papushado, reputedly the first feature horror filmmaker in Israel’s history. Here in the States, alas, his two feature films to date (namely Rabies and Big Bad Wolves) have been seen by pretty much nobody outside of Tribeca. Yet here he is with an action film from Netflix (alongside StudioCanal and STX Films), featuring the likes of Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, and Paul Giamatti.
Yeah, this looks like my kind of crazy. Let’s go. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Zola
July 13, 2021 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
We got a weird one tonight, folks. Read the rest of this entry →
