Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me that much. I don’t expect it soon, since there would likely need to be a shakeup in Konami’s management first, but given how closely Kojima is associated with MGS, I can easily see Kojima getting licensed to do another game to be published by Konami. I just doubt he’ll ever return as…

I went to a week-long horror movie festival a year or two ago that was sponsored in part by the producers of Goodnight Mommy. The end result is that I saw the same trailer for that movie two to three times a day for an entire week. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sick of a movie before actually having seen it in my…

It’s not an accident how much the Ted Kord Blue Beetle costume resembles Spider-Man’s....

It’s not a lie: they’re bringing in less, but they’re spending way, way less. So it’s a net profit. The question is whether or not they can keep this up going forward. They’ve likely already trimmed all of the fat they can realistically trim, and there’s no guaranteed their revenue won’t continue to fall, particularly…

Seward doesn’t usually get fused with Van Helsing, exactly, since almost every adaptation of the story keeps Van Helsing’s character around, and usually in a form fairly close to how he was presented in the novel. But Seward was written in the Hamilton Deane/John L. Balderston play as a very different character, and…

Well, yes, to a degree. Victorian literature had plenty of “gentlemen adventurer” figures. They certainly wouldn’t have fit in comfortably with real world British society (people like Allan Quatermain in particular), but they certainly lived up to broad Victorian ideals of heroism and proper civilized behavior in a…

Fair enough about modern slasher films, but I still think the formula is known well enough that you don’t actually need to piggyback it onto the Halloween name. That said, what you’re describing certainly sounds better than Rob Zombie’s rebooted duology, so I shan’t speak too strongly against it. :-)

I tend to read Bram Stoker’s story as a deliberate up-ending of Victorian social norms. Think about it: the most compelling characters on offer are all profoundly weird and unacceptable by Victorian standards. You’ve got Dracula himself, of course: a blood-sucking monster. Then there’s Mina, a “new…

I really like Harker, at least in the book. I’m drawn to both him and Seward because I like how they’re almost completely out of their element. They’re not heroic, they’re in way over their heads, and they help put into context just how utterly bonkers many of the other characters really are (Dracula, of course, but…

Wild Wild West was a terrible film... but an eminently watchable one because all of the major actors are a) extremely charismatic, b) goofing off enough in their performances to make it all oddly endearing. That goes a long way. For an example of a movie with very similar problems that isn’t at least partially…

I actually quite like The Matrix Reloaded, and, in some ways, I think it’s aged better than the original. It’s biggest problem is that it writes a check that The Matrix Revolutions either can’t, or won’t, cash, and it’s admittedly hard to treat the two films separately when they were clearly written, produced, and…

I’m just going to come out and say it: I like Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey more than Excellent Adventure. Mainly thanks to William Sadler as Death, admittedly, but still.

Honestly, that sounds a little bit too much like what they did (or tried to do, at least) with the Friday the 13th movies and the whole “Jason worm” silliness. I’m not sure there’s enough to distinguish the Halloween franchise as unique and worthwhile without the Myers family backstory. Take that away, and you’ve just…

It’s not exactly “new” for this franchise. They’ve already done it with Halloween H20, which ignored parts 4, 5, and 6 (well, and 3, but that was in a separate continuity from the get-go).

Per the 4/5/6 trilogy... you’re not that far off with the Evil Time Lord theory, frankly. I can certainly understand disliking the overly supernatural turn the franchise took therein, but there weren’t many plausible alternatives in my mind if you want to reconcile post-Halloween 2 appearances by Michael in a…

I’ve always enjoyed Season of the Witch, so I’m glad it’s finally getting some respect, but I get off that train with the criticism of the Halloween 4-5-6 trilogy. Halloween 4 is a great movie, Halloween 5 is admittedly boring in parts, but still better than at least half of the franchise, and Halloween 6 is... well,…

It used to be fairly universally hated. But a lot of that seemed to come from people who had never actually seen it, and only knew it by its reputation (“the one without Michael Myers”). A few years back, various reviewers actually sat down and watched it fresh and came away liking it, and people in general started…

Well, as of right now they’ve been about equal, with Smith playing the role from 2010 through 2013, and Capaldi from 2014 through 2016. It might feel different after season 10. If it doesn’t, it might have something to do with Smith’s two interrupted spring/autumn seasons making it sort of feel like he had more…

Given that it’s come to rival Matt Smith’s Pandorica speech for the number of times past actors have been asked to read it at conventions (I know that Davison, McCoy, McGann, and Hurt have all been corralled into doing so), you don’t even need to imagine any of the previous incarnations blowing the scene away. They…

It was pretty much the standard even in the classic series. William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison, and Sylvester McCoy each did three seasons each, and Colin Baker did three years, even if he was only actually in two seasons. Peter Davison has semi-famously said that he once talked with Patrick Troughton…