If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, we’d be less than two weeks out from the premiere of Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, rather than having to wait until its delayed July 2021 date. We do however have a brand new comic book series featuring the Master of Kung-Fu launching […]
Wrong Turn 2021 – The Horror Reboot No One Expected | Video Review
Wrong Turn, 2021. Directed by Mike P. Nelson. Starring Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Daisy Head, Bill Sage, and Matthew Modine. The latest installment in the long-running slasher franchise Wrong Turn is getting a brand-new 2021 makeover. Gone are the deformed mountain men of previous entries, and we are meeting The Foundation. […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Taming the Garden
Taming the Garden, 2021. Written and directed by Salomé Jashi. SYNOPSIS: Documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country’s former prime minister. Documentarian Salomé Jashi captures environmental disarray in a singularly startling – if extremely methodical – manner […]
The Lost Crusade: The Truth About Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven’s Abandoned Epic
Marvelous Videos explores the story behind the abandoned historical action epic Crusade… We have all heard or advocated for something that has ultimately never gotten produced. Zack Snyder’s Justice League aside, the reality is such cases of fan advocacy leading to actual development of a long-awaited project are few and far between. No matter how […]
Sundance film Jockey lands at Sony Pictures Classics ahead of its premiere
One day before its premiere during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Jockey has found a home with Sony Pictures Classics announcing it has acquired all worldwide rights. From director Clint Bentley, Jockey stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey on one last run for a championship. Out of nowhere, a young jockey claiming to […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – A Glitch in the Matrix
Glitch in the Matrix, 2020. Directed by Rodney Ascher. SYNOPSIS: Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for through archival footage, compelling interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a collection of cases from some of our most iconoclastic figures in contemporary […]
Morbius to undergo more reshoots as Jared Leto hints at script issues
Having originally been set to arrive in July of last year, Sony Pictures’ Jared Leto-headlined Marvel movie Morbius saw itself bumped into 2021 in the wake of the pandemic, with the studio then announcing earlier this month that the film has been pushed back again and is now looking at a January 21st 2022 release. […]
Mark Hamill and Eric Roberts Hitch a Ride: A VHS-Era Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride… ‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Mass
Mass, 2021. Written and directed by Fran Kranz. Starring Jason Isaacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, and Reed Birney. SYNOPSIS: Years after a tragic shooting, the parents of both the victim and the perpetrator meet face-to-face. In the wake of any tragedy, those affected scramble to make some sense of what’s happened in order to move on […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ailey
Ailey, 2021. Directed by Jamila Wignot. SYNOPSIS: A feature-length portrait of the life and work of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey. “Sometimes your name becomes bigger than yourself.” A single line from Ailey sums up the enigmatic figure at the center of this new documentary. That’s not to say the iconic dancer and choreographer wasn’t […]
