March 2017

There were 11 posts published in March 2017 (this is page 2 of 2).

Freaky Fridays: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is a film I hated before I even pressed play. This is because Part IX is the first film in my Friday the 13th viewing odyssey that I was unable to watch on Amazon Prime. I gather because the first eight films are Paramount releases while Part IX is from New Line Cinema. I understand this is a completely arbitrary and unfair grievance in regards to the actual film, but when I have to go out of my way to watch a film I already know is bad, you better believe I’m going to be cranky.

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Get Woke

Get Out

Let’s face it. It’s hard to want to get out of the house and see a movie in theaters these days. Because the way things are going, $15 will soon be the new norm for movie tickets instead of closer to $10, while there are so many other choices content-wise that you can watch in the comfort of your own home. It all makes going to the movies seem like a bit of an archaic tradition. So being someone with fairly archaic interests, I realize I’m a bit in the minority of people who will always prefer to see any new movie I’m going to go to the trouble of seeing in theaters.

That’s because I still believe movies are a medium that is meant to be seen on a big screen with an audience. But a movie like Get Out, the debut directing effort from Jordan Peele, is one in particular that reminds of that belief.  And I wouldn’t even say I saw it with that packed of a crowd (though I suppose it was packed for a Thursday night), and yet was still able to feel the weird push-and-pull of catharsis that you can only get from seeing a really good horror movie with a bunch of strangers. Continue reading →

Pitching Tents 18: Musicals

No one really knows how the game is played. The art of the trade, how the sausage gets made. We just assume that it happens but no one else is in the room where it happens. In this case, I’m not talking about the post-Revolutionary War American government, but actually the dirty work of pitching movies. This week, the four of us try to come up with some really good ideas for ways Hollywood could cash in on the recent success of musicals like La La Land. What’s our name, man? Pitching Tents, our name is Pitching Tents, and there’s a million things we haven’t done, just you wait, just you wait.

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