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*This post is inspired by the Test Pattern podcast "Episode 72: Universal Monsters Series - Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Shape of Water" Every good story has a dash of tragedy. Tragedy can be a powerful layer to any story, from the Odyssey to William Shakespeare,
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The movie novelization used to be big. When films didn't come out for home media to the general public fans had to rely on reissues, music, and novelizations to relive their favorite stories. Novelizations also helped deepen and enrich movies they'd loved by going deeper into
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Batman is a naturally darker character in DCs pantheon, an opposite to their favorite Superman who reigned over the imaginations of kids minds. At some point, during the late 80s, these two characters switched popularity, and inevitably changed the way people viewed these characters in what I'd now
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From the starting line Warner Bros. adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book has been, and still is, under fire of many criticisms from audiences and fans of the Disney live action movie, many of which I cover in Part 1 . Even under those circumstances I felt that
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A few years ago two studios announced that they would be making new adaptations to Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. On one side Disney was making a live action remake of their animated classic, and on the other hand Warner Bros. wanted to make a darker story that
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If film is subjective then Comedy films are super subjective, and for the last ten plus years most comedies have been mean spirited, sex jokes, and just gross humor with no thought put into them. There are a few exceptions, but mostly that's what makes up the comedy