I GAVE THIS MOVIE ITS TITLE! Sort of...
Well, no... fuck "sort of." HELL YEAH, I DID.
I've actually never seen the movie, but I just wanted to toot my own horn a little for attention.
See, after the first movie was such a surprise hit, SyFy immediately ordered a followup. So they announced a contest to title the second movie. All you had to do was go on Twitter and enter. So, I came up with this title, clever…
In "Best Of" horror lists, this movie consistently ranks somewhere around number 25. But I don't care what anyone says, it will always be my #1 favorite horror film. I first encountered it around 23 years ago when I worked at a mom-and-pop video store in Manhattan. I was in the midst of getting my film education from the dusty shelves full of VHS tapes. I had always been fascinated by ghost stories and had already had one of my…
I cannot deny the power of this film. It's beautifully shot and fiercely acted and it tells a story that anyone would want to get behind. But the story is its problem because it is such a Hollywood fantasy of revisionist wish fulfillment. I understand wanting to spin such a strong narrative for an Afro-centric film, but it flies in the face of historical accuracy and possibly even good taste since it turns out that the Dahomey people who are…
A sweepingly, swooningly romantic masterpiece deconstructing the process and mindset of wishmaking, the film Disney's Wish wishes it were right now. Tilda Swinton plays a literary scholar who inadvertently releases Idris Elba's djinn from a bottle and goes on to find love and companionship with him as he recounts his three-thousand-year history of entrapment, wish fulfillment and love affairs. The brilliantly portrayed stories are colorful and lavishly adorned and are presented as cautionary tales of getting more than you wish…
Let me just say this up front: If you are a heterosexual male, you will probably hate this movie. I hate to generalize, but I've already read some bad reviews by men and I just know this is not a guy kind of movie. It's chick-flick horror. And to be fair, yes, the film does lean pretty heavily on the female spirituality thing, especially in its rather disappointing and overblown denouement. But up until that, I was loving every second…
Well... I didn't know going in that this was the film Jean Harlow died while filming, and aside from a few shots of the back of her (actually her double's) head, I really didn't notice anything. Of course, it probably helped that I was never a big Harlow fan anyway, but ironically enough, I enjoyed her more here than in almost any other film I've seen of hers. I don't think they did a bad job of covering if I…
