The upcoming movie summer offers some interesting properties, including a straight crazy horror, a sibling revenge play, an extraterrestrial tale, a campy He-Man reboot, a cautionary tale about technology, a grimdark treatment of public domain properties, and a combination of old and new stunts in a movie about groin shots.
Many parts of the country are still in the grip of cold weather, but according to the calendar, spring has almost sprung itself out. This coming movie summer offers some wrinkles we haven't seen before.
Fuel prices are still at near-record highs thanks to the U.S. getting involved in. As a result, would-be travelers might be forgoing vacations requiring air travel. Hollywood no doubt hopes that translates to more butts in seats for the coming blockbuster season. The good news is there are some interesting properties sprinkled in with the usual cape movies and legacy sequels.
Hopefully these can offer some kind of distraction from the realization your trip to the theater cost you $20 in gas.
"Bart gets a monkey paw and causes a bunch of chaos," Barker says. "I was thinking that I’ve never seen a straight crazy horror where ... we’ve seen ‘Be careful what you wish for’ tons of times. But we’ve never seen my version of it. I instantly started thinking about what I could do with that.
" You see, this is why wishes have to be so carefully worded. If the main character ever played D&D, he would’ve known that. Kids these days. Not gonna lie; when I first heard of this I thought it was going to be one of those Angel Studios things starring Neal McDonough and Kevin James.
This is pleasantly not that, and looks intriguing as hell. Aleshea Harris adapts her own Obie-winning play about sibling revenge. As an Elder Gen X, I was a bit too old for He-Man, Skeletor, She-Ra, and ... Fisto?
That can’t be right. Anyway, Amazon MGM looks like they’re leaning into the campiness of the original cartoon. All the same, I really don’t plan on ... what’s that? Morena Baccarin is playing Sorceress?
ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney.gif] The new Spielberg’s here! The new Spielberg’s here! Steven Spielberg returns to his extraterrestrial roots with longtime collaborators John Williams and screenwriter David Koepp, which stars Spielberg newbies Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor. Aaaaaand that’s about all I know about it.
Spielberg has teased that the movie will be more cerebral than films like ... This cautionary tale about the dangers of too much technology debuts in June, but will unironically be available on the Disney+ app and its streaming service shortly thereafter.
"He was no hero," Nice to see even our most timeworn public domain properties aren’t immune to the grimdark treatment. And I don’t just mean the lighting in that trailer. ... was a welcome return to form for a character unfairly tarnished by the Zach Snyder Effect. This looks like good fun, and I can only imagine how a certain (Bat)fanbase must be wetting their Depends because the first Gotham-set film in the new DCU is ...
In deference to the crew’s advancing age and advanced concussion syndrome, this will be a combination of the greatest (groin) hits of yesteryear and new stunts, also (probably) mostly involving groins. ... movie? The death of Ryan Dunn and the firing of Bam Margera, both original members, didn’t stop things. Johnny Knoxville seems unable to help himself, so the only philosophical question that remains is: is there such thing as a lethal crotch shot?
I write asking flat-out why a bunch of homunculoids who gravitate towards the ‘most despicable’ villains imaginable somehow missed Hitler and Mao Zedong is going to make an iota of difference. Moving on. ... in 2023. From the looks of the trailer (yeesh), he’s not planning to return to Sam Raimi’s comedy underpinnings anytime soon.
Dwayne Johnson returns as Maui alongside newcomer Catherine Laga’aia. At the current rate of Disney remakes, look for a live-action reboot of ... way too many times (the first 15-20 minutes, at least), I’m pleasantly surprised this looks like it has an actual plot. Previous attempts by Broken Lizard to branch out from the ... treatment, planning to shelve it for a tax write-off.
WB relented after intense industry pressure, and we’ll finally get to see the finished product this summer, courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment. Beep beep. Peter Vonder Haar writes movie reviews for the Houston Press and the occasional book. The first three novels in the ‘Clarke & Clarke Mysteries’ - Lucky Town, Point Blank, and Empty Sky - are out now
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