Call me crazy, but I’m starting to warm up to the once-infuriating Let Me In, the American remake of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 gemstone Let the Right One In, a creepy yet elegant meditation on a 12-year-old female vampire, Eli (changed to Abby for the remake), and her new socially inept boy pal, Oskar (now Owen). Similar to the frustration that [...]
Whether you’re Irish or not, it’s time to put on a plastic green hat, bust out that Guinness and make friends with that toilet seat like it’s the Blarney stone.
The very best credit sequences can establish a sense of tone, place or character that helps the audience to invest themselves in what they’re about to see.
THE PBAR STRIKES BACK
No, not the Korean one. The real one.
Tron Legacy Continues Its Awesome
Summit did not pay me off, nor was I encouraged by anyone on their staff to love The Hurt Locker. The fact is, I admire the work Kathryn Bigelow and company did on the film and am happy Bigelow’s talents have finally been fully realized. She has this uncanny ability to take scripts and get [...]
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As impressive as the film’s trailers and television spots have been, The Crazies (opening nationwide this weekend) has an inherent flaw, one that critics and casual moviegoers alike have been quick to point out. The been-done-to-death “infected, murderous citizens” motif is commonplace within the horror genre, with at least one new entry premiering per year; [...]
[Above pic from Alucarda; see below]
Horror remakes are like those annoying, Jack-Daniels-filled uncles who get off on pushing other folks’ buttons—you shouldn’t encourage them. Superlative examples (1982’s The Thing, 2004’s Dawn of the Dead, 2006’s The Hills Have Eyes and last year’s The Last House on the Left) bless local AMC venues few and far [...]
