While we are currently in the middle of the summer blockbuster season, this fall still has plenty to look forward to, including Tim Miller's Terminator: Dark Fate. This beleaguered series has had a rough go since the series pinnacle in 1991 with T2: Judgement Day. Miller's retooling, which directly follows the aforementioned cinematic triumph, ignores the already-forgettable third, fourth, and fifth sequels, the latter of which has one of the dumbest names in movie history. While that trailer gave us a decent sense of the tone and what the film is going to include, many questions still linger.
So, I went and saw that Spider-Man: Far From Home this weekend, ironically in a theater not very far from my own home, and I had a nice time. Seeing Peter make dick jokes and become Tony Stark Jr. was a cute way to spend my Friday night. However, with that whopper of a post-credits scene, with J.K. Simmons' J.J. Jameson exposing Spider-Man's secret identity via a final video message from Mysterio, where's the web-head to go next?
Today is a big day for all you Halloween fans and stans out there. The rumor mill started churning pretty hard earlier when word let loose that Blumhouse is considering bringing back David Gordon Green to direct Halloween 2 and the unannounced Halloween 3 back-to-back, and possibly release them both in October 2020.
We live in what is both an amazing and awful time for content creation. With so many platforms available that both create and display content, there's definitely not a shortage of movies out there these days. However, with so much stuff watchable, not everything is gonna get watched. One of Netflix's recent big-name flicks, Triple Frontier, apparently failed spectacularly enough that the OG streaming site is now going to be investing much less in future original creations.
One of the first images we get of our hero, Geralt, in the third entry in The Witcher series - widely regarded as one of the best games of this generation - is sitting in a wooden bathtub, his junk barely obscured by wonderful water effects. Sex plays a pretty major part in the game interactions, too, maybe more than any other mainstream property I can think of currently. CD Projekt Red really pushed those boundaries, so it makes sense that the first poster of the TV adaptation of the book-then-game series focuses almost directly on Henry Cavill's tightly-toned ass.
There was a time in movies where computer generated graphics were the dreams of fools and wack-a-dos. Computers, those room-sized contraptions, making art? Oh, a hearty laugh ensued, every time. This is why the original Star Wars, released way back in 1977, used miniatures and roto-scoping techniques. However, with the advent of usable computer modeling in 1997, George Lucas, in his immaculate mindset that a film is never finished, decided to "update" all three original films and release them as the "Special Edition" of each. Those are the only versions that have been screened publicly or been released on home video since.
With Tom Holland in the oddly-smooth spidey suit, this iteration of the iconic web-slinger is quite popular. This Spider-Man's sequel, Spider-Man: Far From Home is out next week, but the wall-crawler took quite some time to get to this point where he could take on Mysterio, the fish-bowl wearing special effects artist/evil mastermind. The original cinematic Spider-Man and his director, Sam Raimi, were almost ready to do just that in 2010, but then the movie was cancelled. What was this abandoned film to be about?
It's been a while since I've seen the classic 1990 psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder, partially because I'm not a huge fan of Tim Robbins' acting. Also, there's a lotta movies out there, ya know? But hey, I respect it as a greatly made film, a comment on the toll the Vietnam War took on its participants, and the fragility of the human condition. So, it was inevitable that it would be remade by the hungry producers of today's cynical media landscape and now, we have the first trailer for it.
All we are is dust in the wind, dude. And now, all over Keanu Reeves' bathroom counter is a light dusting of facial hair trimmings because, for the officially righteous start of the righteously official Bill and Ted sequel, Bill & Ted Face The Music, Theodore S. Preston has shaven his face smooth. Yep, his sexy dad-beard is now gone in order to attain a truly, almost immortally beautiful youthfulness that indeed fits the part of an aged slacker.
