By “You’ll believe a man can fly,” boasted the famous tagline for Superman: The Movie. And to its credit, the film pulled it off by delivering state-of-the-art special effects. But as time goes by and technology improves, it’s increasingly clear that the flying scenes aren’t Superman’s true special effect. Rather, it’s
Blu-ray Review: The Profane Exhibit
Back at film school, we’d argue about the making of short films. The instructors insisted each project followed a three-act structure and fully rounded characters. There were some of us who had no use for diagramming and outlining. We wanted the short films to be all about creating a visual
Trailer For Coogler’s SINNERS
We had some details on Ryan Coogler’s new vampire movie the other day. Well, there’s now a tile and trailer, here is Sinners. I like the way it says ‘From the director of Black Panther’ proudly. Obviously, I cannot say anything against Black Panther for, umm, reasons. Sinners stars Michael
ROBOCOP TV Series On The Way
In the ‘They just can’t leave things alone’ category, it looks like Amazon is developing a TV series of Robocop. Peter Ocko will serve as showrunner and James Wan is set to produce, under the banner of Atomic Monster. Ocko has produced series like Black Sails, Lodge 49, Elementary, Dead
Ludwig Ending Explained: the Sinclair Case, DI Neville, & Cracking James’ Code
Warning: contains MAJOR finale spoilers for Ludwig. Talk about perfect casting. If a whole laboratory of boffins had worked day and night to engineer the perfect role for David Mitchell (the UK’s official-Stephen-Fry-in-waiting), they couldn’t have trumped Ludwig. Sardonic, clever, verging on the misanthropic yet charmingly British, the part of
