Don’t Breathe opens with a floating aerial shot over a picturesque neighborhood street. Birds chirp happily as the sun warms the trees and houses with a golden glow. From behind, we approach a man walking down this quiet street, and we discover with horror that he’s dragging something behind him — the body of a…
I teach high school English and have a master’s degree in my content, so I’ve read quite a bit and I’ve studied many authors. I took a seminar in Jane Austen, but, to my disappointment, the only book I enjoyed was one NOT written by Austen (Evelina by Frances Burney, in case you’re curious). I’ve…
Because no one knows Sissy Spacek. That’s the reason Carrie, the classic movie of what happens when bullying meets a hormonal telekinetic, was remade for audiences of 2013. Not because the 1970’s version by Brian De Palma had open, irritable flaws that diminished the Stephen King novel from which it was adapted that needed to…
While watching The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, I tried to keep track in my head the number of other — better — movies this one “borrows” from. It wasn’t easy to try and follow the ridiculous plotline AND count, but a few of the obvious ones were: “Alien,” “Carrie,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Brave,”…
Don’t mess with a troubled telekinetic. It’s solid advice like “don’t piss in the wind” and someone should have given it to the popular kids in Thomas Ewen High School before they went ahead and messed around with Carrie, the titular character in Carrie. Today Screen Gems released a teaser trailer for their horror remake,…
Four times Paul W.S. Anderson has taken viewers on the same ride. At times a mildly entertaining ride, mind you, but one that always dons his wife, Milla Jovovich, in skin tight clothing raising arms against zombies and the secretive Umbrella Corporation responsible for said zombies. To expect something different from him and his fifth…
Back in January we covered the teaser trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution and today we’re covering its first full theatrical trailer. Other than some Matrix-y mind games being played on our heroine, Alice, this installment (number five I think) plays out in the same fashion as its predecessors. Alice fights back against the Umbrella Corporation…
