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Postmortem: ‘AVP’
Welcome to “Postmortem,” a feature that goes behind the scenes of some of your favorite films, and asks: What the heck went wrong?! Paul W.S. Anderson (the Resident Evil films, “Soldier,” Event...
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Postmortem: ‘The Happening’
Part 1: It’s All About The Benjamins I imagine that M. Night Shyamalan, coming off the blockbuster success of 1999’s “The Sixth Sense,” thought that he literally ruled the world. That movie, on a $40...
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Postmortem: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
Have you ever seen a movie, like “Prometheus,” for instance, in which you were blown away when you first saw it in the theaters, only to see it again and wonder what the whole point was? In this...
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Postmortem: ‘Prometheus’
Ridley Scott, even when his films are sort of silly, like “Legend,” look absolutely remarkable. He has an eye that manages to catch the smallest details, but his ear for nonsensical story beats is not...
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Postmortem: ‘Monsters’
Before Gareth Edwards directed Godzilla for Legendary and Warner Bros. he did a little (it cost $500,000, which is more in line with the catering budget of a movie these days) movie called Monsters,...
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Postmortem: Robocop (2014)
I caught the reboot of Robocop in theaters, and recall at the time thinking that it was a bit weak, especially compared to the original film. That being said, having watched it again my first...
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• Postmortem: 2001: A Space Odyssey
l admit that when I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey I thought that it was unwatchable. And when I use the word ‘unwatchable’ I don’t mean on a technical basis–it’s a gorgeous movie...
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Postmortem: The Thing (2011)
With John Carpenter’s The Thing–based on Christian Nyby’s 1951 movie The Thing From Another World and the original John Campbell short novel, Who Goes There?–we got to see a director at the peak of his...
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Postmortem: Pacific Rim (2013)
Welcome to the first post of the New Year! I figured that I’d go back in time to rewatch Guillermo del Toro’s giant robots versus monsters epic, Pacific Rim. If you ask me the true test of whether or...
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Postmortem: Catwoman (2004)
If you’re expecting me to say something to the effect that Pitof’s 2004 super hero movie Catwoman is some sort of lost classic then you’re definitely barking up the wrong tree…because it’s not. And...
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Postmortem: The Fury
I am mystified why Brian DePalma’s The Fury (based on the novel by John Farris) hasn’t been remade because not only would the movie benefit from a more timely interpretation (in these days of...
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Postmortem – Kristy (2014)
Olly Blackburn’s Kristy is one of the better home invasion thrillers, except in this instance the ‘home’ in question is an entire college campus, empty but for a skeleton staff and Justine (Haley...
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Postmortem: Avalanche Sharks (2013)
If I were to tell you that Keith Shaw’s Avalanche Sharks–despite the poster proclaiming ‘Snow Sharks’–wasn’t a very good movie, you’d probably say something to the effect of ‘Duh, it’s about sharks...
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Postmortem: The Core (2003)
Jon Amiel’s The Core wasn’t a success at the time, which is a pity because it’s pretty engaging. It plays very much in Irwin Allen wheelhouse, except on a greater scale. What’s also important is that...
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The Fog (2005) – Postmortem
As I have said time and again, I am not fond of remakes. More often than not they don’t add anything to the original–did we really need to know about Michael Myers difficult upbringing in Rob Zombie’s...
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Postmortem: The Chronicles of Riddick
2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick was a movie that betting person would have assumed was a sure thing. David Twohy was not only returning to direct–he helmed Pitch Black, the movie that propelled Vin...
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The Danger Of The Sloppily Constructed Mythos f/ The Bye Bye Man
I recently caught The Bye Bye Man on Netflix, and the good thing is that it’s not irredeemably bad. Which still means that it’s bad, just not so bad you get angry at yourself for having watched it. It...
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