I’m no fan of remakes but Stephen King co-wrote this new version of his classic short story and I’m wiling to give it a try.
Steven King’s Children of the Corn premieres tonight on the Sci Fi Channel Sat. September 26th at 9pm. The DVD is due out October 6th.
” Kill the Outlander ! ”
Here’s a short trailer for the movie:
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Harper’s Island is a 13 episode mystery/horror series that aired on CBS last season. Harper’s Island is a lot of fun and mixes different genres with deft skill. It’s a soap opera mixed with the mystery and slasher genres. The gore may not be enough for hardcore horror fans (it was on network TV after all) but it doesn’t skimp on blood and action. Viewers should find themselves getting hooked on the mystery of discovering the identity of the killer almost immediately. Harper’s Island isn’t perfect (it drags at times), but it should appeal to both younger and older fans and …
I was extremely sad when I found out that actor Patrick Swayze lost his battle with cancer at the age of 57 back on September 14th. Swayze always struck me as a talented and charismatic actor, and while not all his films were classics, he also had an inate friendly charm and came across as someone who cared deeply about his family, friends, and fans.
I’ve been watching a lot of Swayze’s movies lately and I picked out some of my favorites for you to check out, Rest in Peace, Patrick Swayze:
The Outsiders (1983): Patrick Swayze radiated charisma as the …
Fear Itself is an ambitious horror anthology which aired on NBC to low ratings and was promptly canceled before all the episodes were aired. Like many horror anthology series not every episode is a winner, and the series is quite uneven at times. The best episodes of Fear Itself push the boundaries of what can be aired on network television and were quite impressive. The series brings together an impressive roster of horror writers and directors which include John Landis, Ronny Yu, Stuart Gordon, Mick Garris, and many others.
The three best episodes of the series are “Eater: Director’s Cut” (Stuart …
Crank was a real surprise when it debuted a few years back. It was written and directed by two unknown guys who go by their last names only. Billed as “Neveldine/Taylor”, they are extremely inventive and are adept at making hardcore action flicks that while not to everyone’s liking, are hard to ignore. The flick starred Jason Statham as a hitman betrayed and poisoned by some gangsters. Statham survives long enough to get revenge and the film ends with him plunging to his “death” out of a helicopter. Crank 2 picks up at the exact moment the first movie ends and …
For a movie titled Fighting, you’d at least expect some good fight scenes, but Fighting fails on even that basic level. The movie has actor Channing Tatum (GI Joe: Rise of Cobra) and Terrence Howard (who barely tries at all in the movie) as a street fighter and his manager respectively. There’s also a dull but pretty love interest and some villains who wouldn’t pass muster on a Saturday morning cartoon series. The real shame of the movie though is that the fight scenes are so poorly edited and choppy, viewers can barely tell what is happening while they are going …
Sons of Anarchy is a biker drama from the FX Network. FX has prided itself on being the home of edgy and violent fare like The Shield, which is still its best series. Before The Shield came along, FX was mostly known as a dumping ground for reruns of old Fox series. Sons of Anarchy is the newest drama from FX and its a bonafide hit.
Anarchy is well-acted, compelling, and sometimes even disturbing. Critics seem to be complaining that the series is derivative of other crime sagas, most notably The Sopranos. Sons is not the most original series in the …
I like short movie reviews, so I’ll distill this down to the most important aspects. This movie is essentially a drama, with some good comedy, and some of the best dialogue and acting I’ve ever seen. The opening scene has a famous Nazi, titled, “The Jew Hunter”, Colonel Hans Landa, who is played by the fantastic Christoph Waltz. This first scene sees Landa searching a dairy farm for jews in hiding. As the audience becomes aware that the jews might be found, the music is queued and plays perfectly with the scene, which caused body-tensing in probably every person in the …
Adventureland is an affectionately written and directed movie from Greg Mottola, who previously bought us the smash hit Superbad. Adventureland is more leisurely paced and sentimental than Superbad, but still has a few poop and vomit jokes to please the core audience. Less raunchy than many of its teen comedy ilk, but not very funny, Adventureland is sort of an amiable mess, if not a disaster.
Adventureland is about a young adult named James Brennan (the talented star of The Squid and the Whale) who has to forgo his dream of grad school and get a crappy summer job at a …
Merlin and the Book of Beasts is a typical Sci-Fi Channel original movie. It has awful acting, cheap-looking production design, and some of the worst CG effects viewers will ever see. Merlin has been an enduring legend and there are many notable incarnations worth checking out. The latest is a series from The BBC called Merlin, and is something of a new spin on the legend, taking its cues from the popular Smallville series. It’s bright and entertaining, unlike the trainwreck of a movie reviewed here.
Merlin and the Book of Beasts wants to show us the “dark side” of a …
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