Max Landis keep publishings his unlikely-to-ever-be-made screenplay ideas, so I figured I’d share one of my own. This was the full story outline for my “Motormouth” movie which I mailed to Disney/Marvel. Motormouth is a wholly obscure character from the UK division of Marvel, which had a brief boom of new characters in the mid-1990s. I took it upon myself, as a personal challenge, to come up with an appealing story for Motormouth, and I think I succeeded. (more…)
Note: This article was penned for CraveOnline, but, thanks to a logistical SNAFU, ended up being done by two authors at once. Rather than let a 3 1/2-page article go to waste, I figured I’d share it with my fan(s) here. Enjoy! (more…)
When I returned home after a screening of Michael Tiddes’ A Haunted House 2 – a sequel to the little-remembered A Haunted House from last January – I had only one place of psychological solace to which I could retreat: I took comfort in the fact that of the numerous gags in the film; gags which included swipes at black people, Latinos, and mostly females, there were – at the very, very least – no gay panic jokes or offensive gay stereotypes. (more…)
Sloane U’Ren’s Dimensions is a good example of how one can make a low budget stretch a long, long way. This is a time travel movie complete with an awesome-looking time machine, a long, complex line of weird story twists, and a love story to boot, all clearly made on a shoestring. In addition, the flick is actually clever and intelligent, dealing with time travel in a unique way; it stretches past the usual cutesy Back to the Future causality games to explore the dry yet passionate scientific mindset of a Cambridge-tinged theoretical thinktank. That atom was split in 1917, and the bilk of Dimensions’ actions take place around 1920, so we’re swimming around in theoretical physics, and the excitement that must have sparked. (more…)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Film review by: Witney Seibold
As a mystery, Stephen Daldry’s investigative 9/11 treasure hunt “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is first rate. (more…)
The Artist
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Michel Hazanavicius has previously directed a pair of recent high-profile French spy spoofs about agent OSS-117 (played in the films by Jean Dujardin), which are, essentially, yet another send-up of the James Bond myth. The humor was broad and silly (most of the jokes stemmed from OSS-177’s inability to change his racist and sexist attitudes, á la Austin Powers, but with a Gallic classiness), but the attention to detail was impeccable. (more…)
The Innkeepers
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Ti West‘s “The Innkeepers” is a horror movie, but you wouldn’t guess it at first glance. (more…)
The Grey
Film review by: Witney Seibold
I was disappointed there wasn’t more wolf mayhem. I wanna see a pissed off Liam Neeson punching wolves!
Three Cheers for Darkened Years! 