Disney has had a hot streak. Zootopia, Jungle Book and Civil War all winners. Alice Through the Looking Glass may end up overshadowed by them, but it’s still great. I’m surprised Lewis Carroll didn’t write more sequels. Wonderland has infinite possibilities. Go back to that well! But hopefully the movies can visit Wonderland more than […]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is sort of the sequel you get when you give the director of the grindhouse original some resources, but not really because it’s still Cannon Films. Even with Cannon, it’s clearly more resources than Tobe Hooper had on the 16mm original. On Blu-ray the sequel looks like a polished studio […]
The Toxic Avenger was an essential franchise for Franchise Fred growing up. I remember when I discovered there was not only Toxic Avenger II, but Toxic Avenger III on VHS. Then when I first became a journalist, Troma released Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV and I met Lloyd Kaufman, Toxie and Sgt. Kabukiman in […]
The X-Men movies had actor Daniel Cudmore play Colossus. Cudmore is a big, imposing figure, but when you see Colossus in the Deadpool movie, it’s a whole new Colossus. Now larger than human, this Colossus was created as a visual effect using performance capture. Greg LaSalle was the performance capture artist who performed the actions […]
Spectre is the Daniel Craig 007 movie I’ve been waiting for since Casino Royale. I was concerned that they were still trying to tell an origin story in his fourth movie, as the continuing origin of Skyfall was already too much for me. Spectre actually gives the Craig films a continuity that moves them forward […]
