Rob Zombie assembles a perfectly acceptable corporate slasher picture, but he is hardly a visionary filmmaker. Any movie that starts with a text card explaining the symbollic imagery the director is going to use during the picture is a sign that the director has failed to properly use symbollic imagery. (more…)
The Film Pigs trudge to the cineplex with a vain hope that they will be treated to the Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino but get Death Proof Quentin instead. Nazi-nazi-nazi. Talk-talk-talk. Bore-bore-bore. Explosion. Scalping. Sigh… (IMDb)
Featured Film Pigs Listicle: Most Pointless Remake
The film Pigs go to another summer movie with robots but this time…it’s awesome! Also, it has some kind of social commentary about racism or maybe it’s that we are all created equal or maybe it has something to do with class structure…who cares! People blow up! Aliens look like bugs! There are space ships zooming around! Red matter! Wah-hoo! (IMDb)
Featured Film Pigs Listicle: The 3 Most Annoying Trends In Modern Science Fiction Movies
So, Singer is doing a big screen reboot of a 30+ year-old television property that just had a 4-season long reboot on television? But it likely won’t be connected at all to the recent show. Does this make any sense to anyone? (more…)
John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Some Kind of Wonderful” offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his representative. He was 59.
Hughes died of a heart attack while taking a morning walk in Manhattan, according to the statement. (via CNN.com)
