by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
As preparation for this week’s Godzilla vs. King Kong, I decided to go back and watch (or revisit) every ‘official’ cinematic appearance of the 8th Wonder of the World.
by Ryan Silberstein, The Red Herring and Garrett Smith, Contributor
Two of our resident Godzilla fans look back on the films of the MonsterVerse so far: Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)!
Kong: Skull Island
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (2017)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“You are more beautiful than a hot dog and a beer at Wrigley Field on opening day.”
-Hank Marlow, played by John C. Reilly in Kong: Skull Island
When a film opens with a Samuel L. Jackson marketing promo in which he instructs: “trust me you’re going to love my movie," you know the road ahead is going to be bumpy. This guy has been in a lot of movies…a lot of bad movies. The word “trust” doesn’t seem to quite work in this situation.
Read MorePart 1: March - June, 2017
by Hunter Bush
Which do audiences enjoy more, a fresh idea or something familiar? Someone with a head for box office figures could probably make a decent case either way. Regardless, it seems like every time I go see a major release movie, the majority of trailers are for remakes, adaptations or, more and more frequently, ‘Long Gap’ sequels. This past week I saw The LEGO Batman Movie which had seven trailers preceding it. Two were regular sequels (Cars 3 & Despicable Me 3), two were adaptations (Power Rangers & Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), two were inspired by some outside phenomena (The LEGO Ninjago Movie / toys & The Emoji Movie / emojis), leaving only one as an apparently original idea. That film? The Boss Baby.
Read MoreWelcome to this week’s installment of Can’t Care, Moviejawn’s weekly roundup of all the entertainment news we just can’t care about.
Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Tom Hiddleston looks like a big British foot and has the eyes of a serial killer and I therefore can't care about his dumb SKULL ISLAND movie.
He's boring when he's doing gymnastics through a kaleidoscope in HIGH-RISE FULL OF DORKS, he's dumb as a lanky whiny vampire in ONLY DORKS LEFT ALIVE, he's British as that guy with the giant bug costume in THOR: THE DORK WORLD...now he's gonna fight King Kong. Or catch him. Or train him. Or sic him on an island full of skulls. Who cares? Who even CAN care? Not me.