17
May
The debut trailer for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins wants you to know that the upcoming film is on a new level, as its accompanying rap by A$AP Ferg directly declares. While the final verdict on that bold claim will be decided once the pandemic-delayed film finally drops in July, the franchise aspirations are quite apparent. Indeed, Henry Golding’s black-clad ninja commando is complemented by signature characters such as Scarlett and Baroness, and a teased focus on the Hasbro toy property’s other popular ninja character, Storm Shadow. G.I. Joe’s silent, ass-kicking mascot himself, Snake Eyes, as played by Crazy Rich…
25
Sep
The Ankylosaurus is filmmaker Colin Trevorrow’s favorite dinosaur. In retrospect that shouldn’t be a surprise considering the armored herbivore makes a major appearance in Jurassic World, both that creature and Trevorrow’s first Jurassic Park movie. But Trevorrow made his adoration for Ankylosaurus clear during a discussion about the new Netflix animated series, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, earlier this week. Which, as it just so happens, features a baby Ankylosaurus that the kids in the show affectionately name Bumpy. “We thought it’d be cool [for] a character like Ben to have this sort of bond and epiphany,” Kreamer told us about…
25
Sep
At the start of this year, October was looking huge for Andrew Koji. Warrior, the groundbreaking Cinemax series launches into Season 2 starting on October 2nd. Koji plays the lead role of Ah Sahm, the character that Bruce Lee wrote for himself in his 8-page treatment that inspired the series. That’s still on. However, Koji’s first starring role on the big screen is off. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins which was originally scheduled to premiere three weeks later, has been postponed until next year. Snake Eyes aspires to be a back-door pilot for the G.I. Joe franchise akin to what…
27
Jul
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins will silently and stealthily shift its way out of a 2020 film industry schedule that’s been snakebit by the COVID cobra. Studio Paramount, which is partnering with property owners Hasbro Toys to produce, plans to move the release of the Snake Eyes film—a prequel intended to relaunch the G.I. Joe film franchise—to an unspecified date in 2021, as revealed by Hasbro (via THR,) in a call about the company’s quarterly earnings report. While the film had been set to hit theaters on October 23, 2020, the companies seem to have concluded that its long-set fall…
18
Jul
The following contains spoilers for Netflix’s CURSED. Read our spoiler-free review of the series here. While Netflix’s Cursed focuses primarily on the story of Nimue, a young girl with a magical gift and a dark destiny as the future Lady of the Lake, it asks its audience to engage with the traditional tropes of Arthurian legend in new and interesting ways. Cursed’s Merlin may also feel a bit strange to viewers who are only familiar with the character as the legendary wizard from film adaptations like Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, or the famous T.H. White novel it’s based on, The Once…
03
Jul
The Ju-On/Grudge franchise is one of the most acclaimed horror series to come out of Japan. Despite the series’ reputation, the more recent efforts have struggled to recapture the magic and they’ve stumbled through the franchise’s progressively dense mythos. Not every horror franchise can sustain the expansion to a six-episode television series, but in the case of Ju-On: Origins it allows the show to bring more depth to its characters and help solve a lot of problems. More than anything else, Ju-On: Origins excels as a metaphor for how abuse can be learned behavior and that generational pain is a…
03
Jul
The following contains spoilers for Ju-On: Origins. There are many notable horror franchises to come out of Japan that have made an undeniable mark on the genre, both in their native country and on an international level. The powerful Ju-On/Grudge franchise has been around for over two decades and accrued over a dozen films and additional material that fleshes out this haunting story. The Ju-On series hinges on a simple premise where when a person dies with a deep and powerful rage within them, it births a curse. This idea and the disturbing ghostly characters of Kayako and Toshio have…
17
Jun
In another timeline, we would’ve already feasted our eyes on Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s Candyman, the semi-reboot/semi-sequel of a ‘90s cult classic. But while the movie (like much else) was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, DaCosta is not letting Candyman’s legend be forgotten. Indeed, the director of this new vision of Cabrini-Green’s boogeyman took to Twitter to share a provocative and appropriately heartbreaking puppeteer video that lays bare the racial horrors bubbling beneath the surface of the Candyman myth… and our daily lives. “CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs,” DaCosta wrote.…
04
Oct
Take an in depth voyage into the sci-fi masterpiece ALIEN with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time burst to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 04, 2019
