I preferred the casting of the lead in [REC] because that actress really fit the type of a green, looks obsessed, flirty, low rung local news reporter.
Putting that kind of character in peril really works.
Carpenter just isn't that type, and cannot really act it either, so Quarantine suffers for it.

Why would you build a robot bartender that is human-appearing only from the waist up?
I mean, that's just silly and ruins the whole concept of making him appear lifelike in the first place.

And on that note, holding a press conference to explain your album isn't a Christopher Cross thing to do, its more a hipster thing to do.

"Wahhhhhhhh!"

Me and my best friend did not have the same conclusion.
We wanted to start our own Kevin McDonald fan club of which only we could be members.
We were going to have t-shirts made with a stills from the Kids, one from the b&w bumper where Kevin is ineffectively blowing on a dandelion, one showing him shouting "Mi" in the…

That kind of stuff is chilling.
"The People Who Eat Darkness" about a Japanese serial murderer also details how fucked up their system is when it comes to convicting murderers.
It's pretty much predicated on getting confessions.
If the police suspect you and only you, they can just keep you locked up until you are…

I remember going to the movies with friends and everyone wanted to see Boomerang while I was the sole person who wanted to see Raising Cain.

I kind of think of Bon Iver/Vernon as the hipster/millennial Christopher Cross.
Make of that what you will.

Yeah, I mean, it makes for good hyperbole, but there is no way they are employing hundreds of people and lugging around expensive, cumbersome equipment with zero clue what they are doing day to day.
It's not that it cannot be done, it's that it simply isn't finically feasible when it comes to moviemaking on that scale.
I…

When I see mention of Ocean's Eight, I always think of the John Mulaney bit about how there could never be a female Ocean's Eleven because anytime of group of women get together they passive-aggressively have to attack each other.

But on the plus side, at least it looks like Cranston is finally getting a movie project that isn't weak shit.

I found him pretty unfunny.
I get that everyone comes in with vague ideas of a character, but his remained pretty hookless and it felt like Jason and Scott were trying to do the heavy lifting by guiding him into a quirk that he just couldn't capitalize on very well.

A long time ago, I was turned onto the GAS records when I was buying Apex Twin's Selected Ambient Vol. 2 cd from my local indie music store and the guy said, "Oh, if you like that you'll love this," and pointed me to Konigsfort.
That man was right.
And that shop just announced last week that after thirty plus years they…

I've always maintained that Jackie Chan's HK prime proves that he is one of cinemas greatest stars, if not the greatest star to grace celluloid.
Yeah, fine, he may not have dramatic chops, but his handling of action and comedy is absolute genius.
When you consider how much creative flex he had over every little thing in…

I dunno, for me, his Sicario score is right up there with Under the Skin in terms of haunt factor.
I would also like to see what someone like Alessandro Cortini would do with a score.

"It’s uncertain whether the abandoned scripts transformed Ash into the cartoonish version of the character that Campbell has been portraying in Ash Vs. Evil Dead…"

I was the right age for Monster Squad when it came out.
I may have even seen it in the theater?
I remember thinking it was just okay, kinda' a low rent Goonies.
It didn't make it into my heavy vhs rental rotation.
Loved the monsters, mostly, but was unimpressed by the guy playing Dracula, who gets the most bad guy heavy…

Hmmmnnn.
While this is no doubt a fascinating subject, I was really, really hoping for Robert Blake.
For Christsakes, I bet they could even cast Robert Blake as Robert Blake.

Oh, I just mean tis a lot of the same, really.
I'm not saying all comic/fantasy films are shit, I'm saying they, like most products are kinda middling (thats the nature of all things) and unlike most film genres they are mega expensive.

I cannot help but think that eventually this model will collapse.
I mean, the budgets for these things are so high, it would only take two or three drastically underperforming "franchises" to panic a studio.
And people are going to get sick of this fantasy/comic shit and grow the fuck up, eventually… maybe?… eh,…