“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” Poster by Tony Stella!
Today we have Tony Stella’s knockout poster for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Source: Tony Stella.
Category: Movies
Jordan Peele’s “Us” Poster & Trailer are Here!
The Us Poster and Trailer are Here! The poster is ok, but the trailer rocks!
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018) / Z-View
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Screenplay: Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman from a story by Phil Lord
Stars: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Cage, Liev Schreiber and Chris Pine.
The Pitch: “Let’s make an amazing animated Spider-Man movie featuring all of the various versions of Spidey!”
Tagline: Enter a universe where more than one wears the mask.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a beautifully animated movie that is a joy to watch and a love letter to comic books. That’s because Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is unlike any other animated movie ever. It actually looks like a comic book come to life right down to the zip-a-tone dot patterns, captions and sound effects come to life.
The story involves young Miles Morales bitten by a radioactive spider and empowered with, you guessed it, spider-like powers. Miles finds himself the heir to Spider-Man when Peter Parker is killed trying to stop Wilson The Kingpin Fisk from opening up a portal to other dimensions. Miles has no idea how to use his new powers or to stop Fisk. Fortunately, when the portal opened alternate universe versions of Spider-Man came through. These versions of Spider-Man team with Miles to try to stop Fisk and get back to their rightful dimensions before they disintegrate.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has well-developed characters, humor and suspense. It’s beautiful to watch and a fun way to spend a couple of hours.
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“Bird Box” / Z-View
Bird Box (2018)
Director: Susanne Bier
Screenplay: Eric Heisserer based on the novel by Josh Malerman
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Jacki Weaver and B.D. Wong.
The Pitch: “Let’s turn the apocalyptic novel Bird Box into a movie!”
Tagline: Never Lose Sight of Survival.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When an unknown global pandemic strikes a diverse group of strangers find themselves barricaded in a house. They soon discover that unknown entities are causing people who see them to go crazy and kill themselves or others. As the time they’re holed up grows longer and supplies grow smaller, they become as much a threat to each other as the unknown that awaits outside.
I’m a huge fan of apocalyptic movies where strangers must find a way to get along to survive. Bird Box falls into this category and doesn’t disappoint. Although this is clearly a Sandra Bullock showcase, she is surrounded by an excellent supporting cast. Trevante Rhodes is especially good.
Fans of The Mist, World War Z and the like should really enjoy this new twist on the apocalypse.
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The “One Percent” Poster and Trailer are Here!
The One Percent Poster and Trailer are Here!
Everything You Didn’t Know About “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”!
Syfy Wire presents Everything You Didn’t Know About Invasion of the Body Snatchers! I’ve enjoyed all versions a bit, but there’s no beating the original!
TCM Remembers “When the Night is Over” by Lord Huron
Turner Classic Movies has put together a touching tribute video to the many actors and filmmakers who have passed away in 2018. The song that accompanies the video, “When The Night Is Over” by Lord Huron is a beautiful, haunting tune that I can’t get enough of. Enjoy!
The “Hellboy” Trailer is Here!
The Hellboy trailer is here and I have real mixed feelings about it. Hellboy looks cool and I like the supporting cast, but the tone looks more like comedy than horror… and the comedy wasn’t that funny.
The International Trailer for “Glass” is Here!
This international trailer makes me want to see Glass even more!
New “Hellboy” Posters!
What do you think about the new Hellboy poster above? Yeah, me too. It’s kind of cool but not, ‘Whoa! Stop what you’re doing and check out the new Hellboy poster!’ cool.
There’s a new Hellboy motion poster out today too. You can see it here. Again, kind of cool but not make you move closer to the monitor cool.
On Thursday we get the first Hellboy trailer. I’m hoping for something that’s more than kind of cool.
Why Stallone is Still the Greatest Action Star
Renaldo Matadeen and CBR.com remind us why Stallone Is Still the Greatest Action Star. Here are a few tidbits…
Stallone picks up this accolade for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s his longevity that really puts him ahead in the field. His resume is stacked, with untouchable franchises like Rambo and Rocky under his belt, not to mention other projects that impressed fans of the ’80s and ’90s action scene.
…Creed and Expendables franchises perfectly illustrate his staying power…
…another reason he deserves the title of greatest action star — he’s adapted to the landscape…
That’s another reason why he’s the best action star, period. He mixes drama with his heroics in a style unlike any of his peers. Creed got Stallone an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and he was previously nominated for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for Rocky in 1976, which is something the likes of Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude Van Damme can’t boast.
Check out the Matadeen’s entire piece, it’s worth your time.
John Wick by Dan Panosian!
Dan Panosian is back and he brought John Wick with him! (And, yeah, John Wick is thinkin’ he’s back, too!)
The “Captive State” Trailer and Poster are Here!
The Captive State trailer looks interesting. I’m not 100% sold yet, but am interested in seeing more.
“Mission Impossible: Fallout” Trivia
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 51 Things We Learned from the Mission: Impossible – Fallout Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
7. They tested shorter cuts of the film per the studio’s request, but each attempt saw the scores plummet. Cruise told them “it doesn’t matter how long it is, it matters how long it feels.”
17. The HALO sequence saw them jumping out of the plane at 25,000 feet, and it’s all done live in a single shot. The city lights below are added in post, but the jump and fall are 100% real. “We talked about this for a year. How are going to get this shot?” The camera operator for the scene is wearing a camera mounted to the top of his own helmet, and the whole thing is a legitimately thrilling sequence. Here, I’ll let a very excited and proud Cruise tell you about jumping out of the plane for the scene. “Now he’s backwards. He leaves backwards. I’m coming right at him. Now I have to get from there I have to get within three feet, not two feet ten inches, not three feet and two inches. I have to be right at three feet to be in focus. Now I go past him in that and we had a window of three minutes to get that shot. Now I do this spin, now you’re in my face,I’m up on my back, he’s going up and around. It really is a dance between the two of us. I had to always make sure that the sunset was on my left shoulder. Now we’re traveling at 200 miles an hour at times toward the ground. I’m coming in, it’s like a sprint, boom, I have to hit him. When I hit him, I have to hit him, I don’t know where I’m gonna hit him on his body, I just have to try and take him out and down. And not break his neck, my neck, and not entangle the chutes, deploy his chute or my chute. Any of those things could have led to serious problems.” They built the largest wind tunnel in the world to train and considered filming some of the sequence in there, but it didn’t look real enough.
27. The “what if” sequence at 44:13 where they show the hijack and subsequent killing of dozens of police officers under the overpass was a concern as paparazzi and Parisian gawkers lined the other side of the river watching. They hung 300 feet of silk across the archways so that people wouldn’t see police being murdered, and the unintentional but welcome effect is the “eerie light” across the scene.
