Author: Kevin

There are many right and wrong ways to write a screenplay. Here is the way Argylle was probably written, complete with director’s notes (in this case, Matthew Vaughn or MV here) and SPOILERS. Title: Not Another Kingsman Movie. MV: I see what you did there. We’re doing another quasi-spoof spy movie that isn’t Kingsman. Har-har.…

The thing I love about January action movies is recognizing how little care is put into them. That isn’t me being mean. Imagine a writer is pitching an action movie and they non-sarcastically say the word Beekeeper. After doing a spit take, the studio executive is going to immediately think two things. One – January.…

This never gets old… As we approach the end of 2023, I debated on which topic to discuss at length here. The biggest story was the dual strikes by the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild. The strikes went on for months, grinding production to a halt on everything. Several movie releases were delayed and…

In my annual year-in-review piece, I highlighted how many horror movies were released just in 2023 (more than eighty). As if the movie gods were listening, my first screening of 2024 was a horror movie – Night Swim. Marketed as “from the producers of M3GAN,” Night Swim follows in M3GAN’s lazy footsteps, provides a couple…

“Wonka” – Life is like a box of chocolates. It’s the holidays and you know what that means…mystery chocolates. I suppose it’s also a time for family and gifts and arguments. But nothing gets the adrenaline going like examining the box of chocolates that mysteriously only materializes on holidays, hoping the picture on the inside…

“Wish” – A very Disney movie. Once upon a time, a magical company called Disney was celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary. They created countless commemorative merchandise, erected gold statues of beloved characters throughout their theme parks, and debuted their latest thrill ride – Tron Lightcycle Power Run – in the Magic Kingdom. But to truly celebrate…

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel, set sixty-four years prior to the events of The Hunger Games. My biggest concern going into Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was it would treat President Snow the way Anakin Skywalker or Maleficent were treated in their prequels. You know what I mean…

“Trolls Band Together” – Road trip. In Hollywood’s never-ending quest to milk every franchise into a desiccated husk, they present to us Trolls Band Together. While being the third film entry in the franchise, Band Together is also preceded by two holiday specials and two television series spanning 104 episodes. If there was anything left…

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” – Zoinks. When I was a kid, one of my television staples was Scooby-Doo. I always enjoyed how Scooby and the gang would get chased around by ghosts or witches while trying to solve whatever mystery they had been asked to solve. I didn’t care for the end of each episode,…