Hey everyone, proud to announce my @FANGORIA debut with a piece on the 70th Anniversary of one cinema's most immortal classics: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER!
Find it *fascinating* that for all the texture that FURIOSA gives to Immortan Joe, he essentially gets baited by the same trap twice and actually falls for it in FURY ROAD due to the fact that his Imperator wasn't there to make note of it.
SPEED RACER (2008) is the best. Can't believe it took me as long as I did to watch it. The shining example of how to translate the energy of the manga and anime to live action. Extremely vibrant, and hyper-kinetic, quite simply nothing looks or even *feels* quite like this does.
Run don't walk to Jeremy Saulnier's latest crime thriller REBEL RIDGE. Over the course of 131 minutes, Saulnier lets the caper/revenge thrills unspool in tense fashion with a Capital M Movie Star performance by Aaron Pierre.
Don't know if I can undersell how much this might...
I was into that trailer for Spiral: From the Book of Saw when it decided to be Seven but Saw, and then they had Samuel L. Jackson say: “You want to play games motherfucker.”
I’m there. Haven’t bought the ticket. But I’m in. Let’s go.
Also watched SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO and I don't know if Dolph Lundgren has ever looked better?
For a *tight* 78 minutes both he and Brandon Lee pack a ton of chemistry and character together with some great action.
Seriously love the fits in this.
Theres a very good case to be made that the late, great Michael Nyqvist is just as pivotal to how good John Wick is even before we even get to the action. He's arguably the best villain the series has ever had.
I don't think you could have summed it up more perfectly.
Hell he had that moment with Knives Out where I thought he was gonna do more interesting stuff post MCU and get back to making interesting choices and then....not really.
You're on the money.