If you're a movie lover and have at least two to three decades of being alive, you've experienced at least a handful of MOMENT MOVIES. There's probably a better term somewhere, but a Moment Movie is a first-time movie watch that completely blows your mind and everyone else that sees it. It is forever lodged in your brain as a Movie Moment you will never forget.
Movies like Star Wars, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terminator, Jurassic Park, The…
A love letter to all die-hard fans of John Carpenter's The Thing (especially those that obsessively rewatch it like I do).
The intimidating synth bass rises from silence as the opening credits begin to roll.
A flying saucer streaks across a Star Wars-like starfield above Earth, and the iconic title sequence of "The Thing" burns up the screen.
A summary from Slashfilm 2022 says it best:
"Just as the sound of the craft quiets and its red-hot hue flickers out,…
I expected this to suck, and I'm glad it didn't. It falls into the 'good but not great' tier among the 35 MCU movies released so far.
Anthony Mackie is solid (as always) as Sam Wilson, carrying the weight of the shield with quiet conviction. But Marvel screwed the pooch on making Wilson an honest to god Captain America: they never properly developed his arc. They tried to work through some of that in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but…
I had low expectations for Guy Ritchie's sellout to a big streamer. I read enough to know it was National Treasure meets Raiders of the Lost Ark, but unfortunately, this has Ritchie trying to replicate his dialogue-heavy magic, only ending up with laughable scenes littered with fake cobwebs.
The basic structure is there: siblings hunting Raiders of the Lost Ark-like myths across continents, decoding clues in famous art, all to groaning big-budget effect. The Da Vinci Code worked because it…
"I'm not a girl."
That line by Eli still haunts me, and I think it can be taken in several ways.
The first and more obvious interpretation is that she's just reminding Oskar that she's not human. But another interpretation is far more disturbing -- she's not a girl because she's an old woman -- her body may look like she's 12, but in reality, she's very old.
[EDIT: I hadn't read the book this film is based on until…
"There's only so many PG-13 movies I can make before I get bored," says the filmmaker.
Thank you, James Wan, for saying aloud what all mother-loving horror fans think every time a scene cuts away from gore or a kill in a PG-13 horror movie.
And then there's this choice quote from Wan the Man: " "You can take the boy out of horror, but you can never take the horror out [of] the boy."
The two trailers I saw…
