In a series of purposely timed events, Sony Pictures has decided to re-release the 4K edition of the Resident Evil collection (the Milla Jovovich live action movies) in a package of sleek looking steelbooks housed in a steel house nearly… Read More ›
When we’re children, we look to our parents for our needs. We rejoice when we get what we ask for, and we encounter terrible pains when we don’t. That pain can turn into resentment to the point where it festers… Read More ›
In March of 2020, for American citizens, everything changed. Though epidemiologists had been ringing the alarm for a while, a deadly strain of coronavirus, designated COVID-19 for its appearance in 2019, had moved from overseas countries into the United States… Read More ›
There’s a long history of the blind swordsman in storytelling, though the style of action-oriented martial arts films are often referred to as within the subgenre called “zatoichi,” itself a reference to the title character of a Kan Shimozawa story… Read More ›
There are plenty of movies about road trips, self-discovery, and mental health, so to create something singular that stands the test of time and audience exposure is certainly a hard feat to achieve. Unfortunately, because there are so many movies… Read More ›
As children, there’re all kinds of games available to entertain and to instill a little competition. The trick is that some of those games can end up with some players feeling a little left out, especially when the point of… Read More ›
30 years ago, the running came to an end. Again. This time, on the silver screen, not the TV one. It was Harrison Ford (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars) vs. Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black, No Country… Read More ›
In 2014, if you asked me what I knew about a project called The Equalizer, depending on the time of year my answer would have been “absolutely nothing” or “I know it is the new Denzel feature where he reteams… Read More ›
“Please don’t wash, will arrive in three days” wrote Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife Josephine once upon a time. The man liked a strong smell, and that’s part of the historical record. Reactions to Ridley Scott’s (Alien, The Last Duel)… Read More ›
In May of 2021, news broke worldwide of a discovery in Canada of a mass grave containing the bodies of 215 Indigenous children. This would be shocking to many, the idea that schools created by the Canadian government would so… Read More ›
Movies are designed to teach audiences about themselves and each other. In certain cases, that could be about something as simple as common interests. For others, it could be something more interpersonal, like relationships, or being able to find your… Read More ›
In a recent episode of The Cine-Men, hosts Darryl Mansel and I discussed a few of our favorite sports films. This is a topic not in my wheelhouse as, growing up, I preferred to play them than watch them, a… Read More ›
There are always genres of films that feel like once you’ve seen one thing in the genre, you’ve sort of seen them all. That is usually the case with video game movies because games aren’t always adaptable into a feature… Read More ›
The Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol has been adapted and transformed, told and retold, in a variety of ways for decades. It’s been adapted for a Doctor Who story, one of the better Muppet adventures, and simply as a… Read More ›
Thanks to re-runs, someone of my age was able to be familiar enough with the Bruce Geller-created Mission: Impossible television series so that the announcement of the 1996 Brian De Palma Mission: Impossible film starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt… Read More ›
There are the stories we tell and then there are the stories beneath them. These are sometimes stated outright, bubbling to the surface, unable to be contained, while others are told via pieces of dialogue or in the negative spaces… Read More ›
Even though practically no one has seen it, Unrest (Unrueh) is certainly the film of 2023. The best film? Easily a top 10. The most relevant? Absolutely. 2023, the year of Hot Labor Summer, now Hot Labor Fall. The WGA… Read More ›
Intensity, Integrity, and Intelligence. The above phrase can mean a lot of different things to different people. However, if you’re the sort that remembers when the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) was the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), then these three Is… Read More ›
If you’ve been keeping track of the goings-on at Warner Bros. Pictures over the last few years, their handling of the DC Comics live-action properties has been wildly mismanaged. In their race to build their own interconnected universe akin to… Read More ›
These days, a comic book adaptation is as ubiquitous in entertainment as westerns were in the silent film era and later. There’re the big releases like the upcoming MCU film The Marvels (2023) or DCEU film Aquaman and the Lost… Read More ›