Anyone else reminded of the 70s trio of movies about dilapidated small towns infected by vamps/zombies that have Lovecraftian echoes and protagonists who may be going mad: Lemora, Let's Scare Jessica To Death, Messiah of Evil?

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But was it worth killing record stores, magazine shops, bookstores, video rental stores, antique shops, comic book stores (face it, they're moribund), the mailed personal letter, mail stores, magazines and newspapers?

If you want to see a genre movie dealing with the pervasive fear and social breakdown in the urban UK due to the senseless violence of young thugs, try Heartless. At least it doesn't make the vicious thugs sympathetic and heroic, like Attack The Block appears to do. (Am I misinterpreting the reviews and previews?) …

Del Toro is something of a design fetishist, like Tim Burton. I'm not saying that like it's a bad thing, but he does have a very distinct look, and much of that is due to stylistic sensibilities in set and set dressing, costume and creature design that seem to inform his other choices as a creator. Burton's is…

Does anyone else think it's funny that the UK has insanely expansive libel laws that grossly favor plaintiffs - resulting in 'libel tourism' - yet has huge gaps when it comes to recognizing artistic property?

I don't like Duesberg because of his dangerously crackpot ideas about AIDS.

There's no doubt that Stormare and Mortensen were also very good Old Nicks.

The best Lucifer thus far (whatever you think of the miniseries Fallen): Bryan Cranston.

"share the bond of extraordinary friendship until God produces his greatest creation: Man. Unable to remain subservient to God if it means bowing down to humanity"

I read all the L. Frank Baum books when I was a kid in the seventies and was a huge fan of the 1939 movie. Now now I prefer Return, which is probably as true to the spirit of the books as we are likely to get from any adapation.

Return To Oz is one of my favorite movies. And I even liked SyFy's Tin Man more than I thought I would. But, like superheroes, not every children's book series needs to be done as grim 'n' gritty all the time. Sure, there's darkness in Oz, but there's also a lot of whimsy.

This Hulk looks as different from the '08 Hulk as that one did from the '03 Hulk. (It looks Kirby-esque.) But even with the replacement of Norton I assumed that '08 it was in continuity with Marvel's cinematic universe-building. I guess not. Three Hulk iterations within a decade.

I agree; the 'warrior girl' trope has become just another one-dimensional cliche and fanboy fetish. Case in point: Sucker Punch.

For an excellent 'dark' version of Snow White, see 1997's Snow White: A Tale of Terror featuring Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill.

Do I ever hate torture porn. Just look at horror classics from the 40s to the 70s from Cat People to Let's Scare Jessica To Death to see how lazy, lurid, unintelligent, and rote horror has become in some quarters. Especially that espoused by self-professed champions of so-called 'real' horror - by which they mean…

I think a lot of that is due to the brighter lighting as opposed to the smokier-hued, dimmer-toned Blade Runner, which had sets and props that seemed to have more texture and weathering. Colorful set design, bright lighting, and new sets/props: Paycheck, Runaway, Looker = hokey and chintzy-looking. Drabber colors,…

The vampire is such a prominent pop culture icon that early on a lot of vampire movies become meta in the same way that Scream was in 1996 in regard to serial killers - with characters referring to pop culture in discussing whether vampires are real, what are the 'rules' about vampires, and how to kill them. The most…

I can understand a week or a month's difference in release dates, but with 10 months they are just pissing in our faces. In. Our. Faces.

Gattaca is the most overrated cyberpunk/dystopia/near future movie ever. Its pretense is that it's sophisticated, plausible, 'hard' science fiction. No it isn't. It's some old hat neo-noir aesthetics as window dressing - and core - of a movie with implausible or already obsolete science.