Remaking Princess Bride is a Terrible Idea

The internet rumor mill is a hungry beast, always looking for the next morsel to stuff into its terrible, inescapable maw. I tend to try and ignore it, because so often the rumors end up being nothing more than smoke and mirrors birthed out of the darkest corners of the web. After all, was it …

Movies I’m Looking Forward to in what’s left of 2019

So now that all the big movies I was looking forward to this year have come out - Spider-Man: Homecoming was the last one I was really excited for - the movie releases for the rest of 2019 seem pretty sparse. Or so I thought. I pulled up a list of 2019’s upcoming movie releases, …

The Best Bad Movies on Netflix

So, I have a confession to make. I love bad movies that are the right kind of bad. I’m not going to say I enjoy them ‘ironically’ because that implies I don’t derive actual enjoyment from them. I absolutely do though - there’s something gleefully exciting in the earnestness of some of this absolute train …

What Authors Can Learn from Box Office Bombs

It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a small city to make a movie. Directors, actors, producers, cameramen, extras, set designers, costume designers...when you go see Avengers Endgame in a couple of weeks and you’re sitting through the credits waiting for that post-credit scene, try to keep track of how many people …

Why This Isn’t a ‘Shazam!’ Review

So, since doing movie reviews - at least for big-budget Hollywood genre films - is a thing that I do here, I thought it would behoove me to go see Shazam!. Went on Thursday to an 8:00 show even though I have the flu because I’m a professional, damnit! Well, quasi-professional. I’m a blogger! I …

Aquaman Retrospective: How Did it Go so Wrong?

Note: since this movie has been out for a few months, I’m not worried about spoilers in this. Also note: pop culture moves so fast these days, I feel totally justified doing a retrospective on a movie that is only a few months old. So with the next big thing in film being the Shazam …

Captain Marvel: Review

So after my last post was basically me begging Marvel not to traumatize Carol Danvers and calling them out for how they treat their female protagonists, I only thought it was appropriate to make today’s post a review of the movie itself. Since I haven’t posted a movie review before, a bit about how I …