We all know sequels are becoming more common, and greater minds have written about the tedious procession of them. But there’s a new kind of sequel we’re in the midst

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They’re maligned and hated by critics and a good deal of the moviegoing public, but they get the keys to the US summer blockbuster pool party every year. Why? Because

Continue readingWhy Roland Emmerich Owns Hollywood

To distance a film from the increasingly distasteful moniker, filmmakers and their corporate paymasters are coming up with any term they can think of to convince us we’re not watching a mere remake. … Continue readingIt’s Not a Remake!

Has there ever been a more malinged director than Michael Bay? Critics routinely savage his films as representing everything wrong with Hollywood and its excesses of size, noise and money.

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1990 was the rebirth of Hollywood as a different kind of grindhouse, one that ground up art forms of every kind and splattered them across movie screens in the hope of brand recognition. And for the first time, studios are remaking the first films from that period. … Continue readingThe Closed Circle

But aside from all that, remember the last time you had a splinter or paper cut? It hurt, right? Can you imagine how painful people tearing you to shreds with their teeth and eating you would be? … Continue readingZombie Terror

Reagan was your buddy. He gave you a good job and a gas-guzzler as American as old Hell. And if the ay-rabs or UN pussies told you otherwise, John Rambo would blow them higher than their heathen gods. … Continue readingPardon my Geopolitics