This recounting of the Branch Davidians’ stories also makes for sandy-tinted flashbacks to the 1980s. We are shown the rise of Vernon Wells in the Branch Davidian community and how the man later became known as the Bible-quoting, mullet-topped titan known as David Koresh (played here by Keean Johnson). Part of that included gaining influence … Read more
Gun Interactive has been pretty open about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, as it has released a few behind-the-scenes videos of the asymmetrical multiplayer game in the past. But this latest video is the longest and yields even more details. This mini-documentary has interviews from eight developers from Gun and Sumo Digital. They go through … Read more
Sealed VHS copies of the first three Rocky movies sold at auction for $53,750…more than Sylvester Stallone’s salary on the first. Yo Adrian! I did it! I just bought a Porsche by selling three rocky clap! Original, sealed VHS copies of the first three rocky movies just sold at auction for $53,750. To give that … Read more
Movies just don’t take place in the present day — you’ll find plenty that are either set in the past or in the future. Period pieces have the distinct advantage of a historical record, so they can better emulate the time in which the story takes place. But science fiction films that take place in … Read more
“De Humani Corporis Fabrica”—the Latin title means “On the Fabric of the Human Body”—is not as groundbreaking a picture. But it is a compelling and possibly important one. Not so much because of what it shows, although what it shows can rightly be described as shocking and galvanic. (By the same token, it occurred to … Read more
James Gunn continues to open up about how Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was made and marketed and now commented on not using Disney’s The Volume and the GOTG 3 final cut. The immersive LED soundstage known as The Volume has been used to film some larger-than-life sets for shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi and … Read more
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is looking to have a $72 Million second weekend, marking the best second weekend in Illumination history. Numbers have begun rolling in for the weekend and much to the surprise of no one, The Super Mario Bros. movie is coming in far ahead of the pack with what is looking … Read more
Sequels and remakes have terrible reputations. “They’re all Hollywood makes anymore!” “They’re creatively bankrupt!” “They’re awful!” You’ve surely heard these and other complaints many times before. They’re almost as old as movies themselves. (By the time movies had sound, they also had remakes and sequels.) In fairness, there are many good sequels, and arguably even … Read more
The crisis in “Everything Went Fine” begins in the first moment. Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau) sits at a table in her apartment, working. The phone rings. She listens to the caller, whom we don’t hear. She asks, “When? Where?” and then promptly races out the door. Her father has had a stroke, and the caller is … Read more
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is just under a week away from its April 19 launch, but Guerrilla Games has dropped the DLC’s launch trailer. It has more gameplay than anything else shown so far and even includes new characters. The trailer has Aloy flying into the area and quickly coming across Seyka, the new … Read more