We Can Remake It: Grim Fandango
By: Daniel Reynolds Video games as movies, movies as video games; the translation rarely works. For every well-meaning Star Wars game or legitimate hit like Riddick (thanks Vin!), there are […]
By: Daniel Reynolds Video games as movies, movies as video games; the translation rarely works. For every well-meaning Star Wars game or legitimate hit like Riddick (thanks Vin!), there are […]
By: Daniel Reynolds A couple of years back there were reports that MGM was in some financial trouble. The studio had been losing money and was having trouble getting films […]
By: Daniel Reynolds Look, I get it, RZA loves kung fu movies. He grew up immersed in the grindhouse theatres of New York City and clearly has strong feelings of […]
By: Daniel Reynolds There was a time there, I was probably around 13, when reading Star Wars novels seemed perfectly reasonable to me. You could (and still can!) jump into […]
By: Daniel Reynolds I went into Cloud Atlas prepared for anything. I had seen the trailer (which only evinces a vague karmic, space aged philosophy and some wild action scenes), […]
By: Daniel Reynolds With the release of Paranormal Activity 4 last week and Halloween just around the corner, I got to thinking about the amazing longevity of horror movies and […]
By: Daniel Reynolds The 90s were a weird time. Can we admit that now? We’re 12 years out and the further we get from that decade the more bizarre some […]
By: Daniel Reynolds Argo, the film based on a CIA (and Canadian!) led action to free Americans from Iran during the hostage crisis, opens with a clever conceit. Now, naturally, […]
By: Daniel Reynolds The title of Rian Johnson’s latest movie could not be more appropriate. Looper. Circular. Spinning. Forever and ever connected. One element of the film feeding into the […]
By: Daniel Reynolds When a film director builds a body of work as layered, dense and challenging as Paul Thomas Anderson’s, each of his successive films become something of an […]