Slapdash

via Sony Looking at the rather lukewarm reception to the Gran Turismo trailer, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that the video game adaptation won’t be the project that sees Neill Blomkamp finally recapture the magic that marked him out as cinema’s latest wunderkind with District 9, before the law of diminishing returns set in across Elysium, Chappie, and Demonic. In the filmmaker’s defense, making your feature-length directorial debut with an instant classic sci-fi that won rave reviews, made a killing…

And lo, Glastonbury announces the 2023 main stage headliners, and it’s a blokefest. After Saturday night’s female headliner (rumoured to be Taylor Swift) dropped out, the Pyramid stage headliners became Arctic Monkeys on Friday, followed by Guns N’ Roses on Saturday, with Elton John on Sunday. While it doesn’t seem feasible that anti-female prejudice is involved, at the very least, how sloppy, how slapdash, it all is.Whatever image it pushes, it’s been some time since Glastonbury was run by a bunch of hippies with a…

Wes Craven’s Scream completely revolutionized the slasher genre when it landed with a bang in 1996, to the extent that any movie indebted to the glory days of the 1980s felt incredibly dated by comparison. 2001’s Valentine didn’t care, but the misguided throwback to the straightforward knife-happy terrors of old suffered as a result. Loosely based on Tom Savage’s novel of the same name, the uninspiring exercise in steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the subgenre had evolved could generously be labeled a critical and…

via Columbia Pictures Hollywood history is littered with major A-list stars making some of their earliest appearances in low budget horror movies that get trashed by critics, with everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney to Jennifer Aniston and Johnny Depp dealing with blood, guts, and gore during their formative years in the industry. Despite its status as part of an iconic franchise, the lasting legacy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is undoubtedly the success eventually found by its…