Director Denis Villeneuve has not been afraid to take risks as a filmmaker. Last year he took on the seemingly impossible job of making a worthy sequel to the science fiction classic Blade Runner. His next project is an arguably even more ambitious adaptation of the novel Dune. The details of how he will bring the dense and difficult novel to the screen has remained shrouded in mystery. One of the few details we have received so far has been related to casting with the role of protagonist Paul Atreides being played by Timothee Chalamet. We have learned today that…
Author: Rick Ceballos
Today Netflix released a trailer for a feature length movie from the Black Mirror team, Bandersnatch which will release tomorrow. The movie appears to be about a programmer who is designing a game based on a book by an renowned author who later went mad. As the programmer begins researching the authors work, he begins to become unhinged as well. The darker side of technology is a staple of Black Mirror so it doesn’t look like viewers shouldn’t expect a happy fun good time. It also appears to be set in 1980’s Britain with plenty of old school technology featured…
Variety reported today that M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass is predicted to make between 70 to 75 million on its opening weekend in January. The film is a sequel to 2016’s Split which was a massive success, earning $275 million worldwide on a $9 million budget. It also marked the return of Shyamalan as a profitable filmmaker after suffering some high profile disappointments such as 2010’s The Last Airbender and 2013’s After Earth. Starting with 2015’s The Visit, Shyamalan teamed up with Blumhouse Productions, a movie studio that specializes in the horror and thriller genre. The relationship has been very successful…
While talking with BBC Radio 1 Tom Holland mentioned who he wants to play the next Uncle Ben.
As we approach the end of the holidays, so begins the final countdown to the new year. This year was particularly rife with debates over what is makes or doesn’t make a good Christmas movie. Thankfully that debate is pretty much over and we can get down to what matters now, what makes a good New Year’s Eve/Day movie? What best gets us into the spirit of annual renewal, where we can make our grand resolutions that end up failing two weeks into the year. I think that prospect of eventual failure is best exemplified by a movie that also…
The past couple years have been a wild ride for shitty men in positions of power. We have seen people previously held in high regard have their reputations deservedly shattered because of how they exploited the people around them. Some of them have, thankfully, gone to prison or are possibly facing hard time for their crimes. The usual way these guys have gone about defending themselves have run the gamut between flat our denying the charges to disappearing completely in the hope that everything blows over. Kevin Spacey chose the latter tactic after actor Anthony Rapp(Star Trek Discovery) accused him…
It isn’t very often that I play something that inspires me to make up my own fiction for a game, but Mewnbase has become an exception. I’ll be the first to admit that I am no fan of roguelike or roguelite games. Having a single life and simply moving along at a frantic clip until I get killed or simply get unlucky is just not that fun for me. Most of these games require juggling resource management as well as fighting skills, and it’s up to the player to figure out the best way to balance the two and get…
Working retail during the holidays is a special kind of hell. Amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth by angry customers is the store music playing to pretend Christmas is about anything except buying useless crap. Many of the retail legions know how corporate picks the absolute worst of holiday music and plays it on repeat, often playing 300-400 versions of the same song. Customers seem to love it cause they only have to hear it over the din of screaming children and their own internal seasonal depression. For those of us in the trenches, there is no escape from…
It has been a weird weekend. At the end of another soul crushing day of work, school and family obligation, I am known to watch YouTube while the booze takes me away to slumberland. On my journey to another richly deserved blackout, a new video by RedLetterMedia caught my eye. The video, part of their “Best Of The Worst” series, is a fun bad movie show where they pick trash at random and judge which one was the most punishing to sit through. In this episode of Best of the Worst an unexpected surprise guest showed up. A person who…
Part of the allure of telemancy is how easy it is to penetrate and change culture. Don’t get me wrong, the amount of skill and luck it takes to become amongst the conjurers of your average television studio is a discipline all by itself. At the end of the day, like any old average dark art, it’s all in who you know, not what you know. But assuming you are already a part of the guild, then the barrier by which you can impose a new piece of culture is highly permeable. For example, consider the sitcom in its purest…