Bill Watters is a child of the late 70s- he walked into a theater to watch Star Wars, and emerged to become a lifelong fan of cinema and television. Spending nearly a decade as a projectionist, he fell into the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and became a codemonkey for a range of game companies. These days he's a frequent speaker, moderator, and panelist at pop-culture events and conventions, as well as a prolific film and television critic and genre news writer. He is also a member critic of both the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. In addition to his writing, he is also a photojournalist and can be found on Getty Images.
If you’ve heard about “Cuties”, you’ve likely heard one or more of the following: it promotes pedophilia, it’s a documentary, there’s underage nudity, and there’s 11-year olds performing sex acts on themselves and/or others. None of those are the case.
When fans of “Watchmen” and “Umbrella Academy” can say, “did you see what happened in that episode? It was so nuts”. “The Boys” fans just shake their heads, saying, “you’re adorable.”
Disney’s ongoing foray into rehashing its existing classic properties as Live-Action remakes has seemingly done the unlikely with “Mulan,” namely by giving its new incarnation a reason to exist.
Bill & Ted haven’t changed very much, and neither has the overall storyline, but in the end, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” a familiar and charming ride.
HBO is diving into the even deeper end of the allegorical genre fiction pool with its new series “Lovecraft Country.” A reference to the science fiction/horror/fantasy worlds of the celebrated author, H.P. Lovecraft, the series is a neo-anthology, with set central characters spanning the season, but moving from from story to story. The vibe is a mix of the racial by way of genre flavor of “Watchmen,” the thriller of “Get Out,” find the monsters of “The X-Files,” and the quest of the week like “Friday the 13th” or “Warehouse 13.” Set in the 1950s, the series follows Korean War…
“The Rental,” is a horror film that unfortunately misses the mark in creating any kind of either tension or horror.
John Stewart is America’s leading political satirists, so in his new “Irresistible”, it comes as a shock that it feels pointedly depressing rather than fun.
“The King of Staten Island” is one of those movies which has a charm because of its willingness to bare the soul of its lead actor and co-writer.
For a crime thriller, it’s a problem when there’s nothing thrilling, and it barely cares about the crime. Its main crime is a great cast, wasted.
“Becky” is likely to be a film that Quentin Tarantino would have a blast of a time watching (other than it’s lacking any gratuitous shots of women’s feet). It’s a gruesome little home invasion tale with a lot of in your face violence (in many cases, quite literally). The best comparison would be a bloody mix of “Breaking In” and “Home Alone.” Becky (played by “Ouija: Origin of Evil’s” Lulu Wilson), and her widower father, Jeff (played by Joel McHale) have gone on vacation to a lake house where Jeff has also invited his new girlfriend, Kayla (played by “Room’s”…
