Recent content by Patrick H.

The previous film felt like more like an awkward reunion special than a further adventure of Indiana Jones. The Young Indy TV show from the 90s honestly contributed more to the character than anything in that movie. I'm sure Spielberg wishes to avoid a redux of that scenario, and if he and a...

This is really, really interesting. Trevorrow is not a writer I have a ton of faith in after his last insanely terrible 'Jurassic' script, but I'll give him this...it looks like he was legitimately building off the threads of the previous movie rather than trying to walk them all back as Abrams...

Oof...this was a tough one. I actually thought the underlying story/payoffs were fairly solid (if predictable, but that's kinda a given based on Abrams' previous work). But the writing here was flat-out terrible and the filmmaking itself abandoned all pretense of fitting in with this...

I made a point to get out to see this over the weekend before it disappears from theaters and am SO glad I did. Even not having read the book, I instantly recognized a classic, sprawling King storyline where the horrors are both visceral and fantastical, and while the characters are all messy...

Out of morbid curiosity I saw this last night in 3D and, in spite of the strong outer-space opening, was dumbfounded just how much it (literally) went off the rails. For something with lofty ambitions that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, it felt cheap and painfully obligatory. It had no...

Word from the industry folk over at Film Score Monthly is that Williams came down with a typical plane illness after he arrived in London to kick off that series of European concerts, and he'll be fine. Once he's recovered he'll just head home to L.A. He's been in great spirits at U.S...

I absolutely loved this show, but had a question regarding the final episode. I'm currently listening via stereo downmix (my surround system has been in storage since a recent move), and on the last installment the dialogue is barely audible and even the title music is completely missing its...

Indeed, little-remembered fact was that post on Jurassic Park was completely overseen by George Lucas at Skywalker while Spielberg was shooting Schindler's List in Europe. Hence Lucas being at the top of the "special thanks" list in the credits.

I concur that Johnson is the most logical selection at this point...if he agrees he can just roll right into pre-production on the next one. I've been reading Guillermo del Toro's name a lot as well, which I could actually see. He's had tons of experience in films like this, is a skilled...

Dammit, I should've put money on Trevorrow being fired! After the repeated directorial debacles on the standalone films, I just had a gut feeling after his latest indie tanked. My gut feeling now is they will try to retain Johnson (whose film must be pretty damn solid if it's survived this...

I'd avoided Fire Walk with Me for years because every friend who'd loved the show had told me to stay well away. I finally watched it in the run-up to the new series, and was absolutely floored. As someone who was more drawn to the Lynchian horror elements of the show than most of the quirkier...

I was hoping the vertical stretch on the original 'Panther' would've been corrected for this release, but alas it seems not. This was one of many otherwise nice fresh transfers that MGM did of their vintage UA titles in the late 2000s were they could not for the life of them get the geometry...

Forgive me if this has been covered before, but aren't the skull crawler critters basically a riff on the two-legged snake-lizard thing that appeared (briefly) in the original Kong? I think it was the only creature from the infamous spider-pit sequence to remain in the film.

As someone currently experiencing (albeit as an adult) a situation not dissimilar to the young protagonist in this film, I found its tale almost overpowering in its emotion and honesty. I'm not afraid to admit that the ultimate revelation of the monster's nature and purpose moved me to tears...

I don't remember exactly where, but in one of the Naomi Watts-runs-through-the-jungle sequences in the middle act there is an edit in the theatrical cut where the audio jumps abruptly. It's because a sequence from the extended cut was dropped out there, but they didn't branch it in a way that...