Historically, Ridley Scott doesn’t have much of a filter. Currently, the same is also true. It’s one of the things we kinda love about him! The legendary director of Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator turned up to give a talk at the BFI Southbank last week and certainly didn’t hold back when discussing the state … Read more
This post contains spoilers for V/H/S/85 and The Black Phone. In two weeks, the story of the Grabber continues, as Black Phone 2 comes to theaters on October 17. Anyone who doesn’t want to wait until then can satisfy their curiosity by watching a totally different movie. Before casting Ethan Hawke as the Grabber, Mason … Read more
Jason movies aren’t supposed to be good. Heck, they weren’t even supposed to be about Jason. Back in the late 1970s, producer Sean S. Cunningham saw the financial success of Halloween and an opportunity to cash in himself. So he took out an ad for a movie called Friday the 13th, riffing on the holiday … Read more
It’s been 12 long years since Thomas Pynchon released his eighth novel Bleeding Edge, and rumors have only continued to swirl about the famously elusive author. Like the hushed whispers surrounding Tarantino’s tenth and final film or George R.R. Martin’s increasingly unlikely A Song of Ice and Fire conclusion, most readers could only spend the … Read more
There’s been a pop culture online uproar in the last week. (I know, it’s shocking. That never happens!) This time, about James Bond. If you missed the whole thing (perhaps you were outside, smelling the flowers), here’s a summary of what happened: Amazon, which now owns the beloved James Bond franchise after bagging it in … Read more
If it feels like it was only a month ago when we had our last major bit of corporate media consolidation, there’s a good reason for that. It literally was just over a month ago when billionaire David Ellison’s Skydance Media closed its merger with Paramount Global, forming the titanic Paramount Skydance. Now, before Stephen … Read more
Star Trek is all about exploring the final frontier. But its also about how you can’t explore it alone. From the naval trappings that inform its starship setting to the utopian United Federation of Planets, Star Trek offers a fundamentally communal vision, a depiction of the future in which humanity has overcome its petty differences … Read more
The fate of televised Doctor Who hasn’t been this unclear in decades. We don’t know when the series will be coming back to our screens – or even if it will, though it seems highly unlikely that one of the BBC’s most profitable shows will be left to wither on the vine. We certainly don’t … Read more
In 1995 Robert Rodriguez unleashed Desperado onto the movie-going public. A remake/sequel to Rodriguez’s low-budget debut El Mariachi, Desperado stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi, a musician uniquely gifted in the art of destruction who goes on a rampage of revenge after a mysterious drug kingpin kills his girlfriend. Over the course of 105 lean … Read more
Nintendo fans have been more than a little patient in waiting for the company’s announcement regarding Mario’s 40th anniversary. We knew there would be something, most likely a re-release of an old title, and we were correct. Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be upgraded for the Nintendo Switch 2 with 4K … Read more