Category: Film/TV

Supergirl Meets The Flash Trailer

This cannot arrive fast enough on my TV – trouble is, here in the UK we’re still waiting for Supergirl to return.

“The Shallows” Teaser Trailer

I like a shark attack movie as much as the rest of the world – Deep Blue Sea was a wonderfully over the top film with one of the best surprise deaths ever – and the trailer for The Shallows looks intriguing:

Not much to go on there but if they can stretch a movie out with just Blake Lively (and a seagull) on a single rock facing off against a shark, they can have my money. The potential for some real nerve shredding tension is there if they stick with a tiny cast, a single location and an ever present threat; this could be a real edge of the seat situation and I hope it works.

However, two things bugged me about this: first, the tag line:

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That’s the best they can come up with? What was once over there, is now over here. And if “the deep” is a reference to the book by Peter Benchley and the film adaptation . . . well, there were no sharks in that one. You’re thinking of Jaws. And that’s the other thing that bugs me from the article where I discovered the trailer:

Billed by Sony Pictures as “‘Jaws’ for a new generation,” “The Shallows” opens June 24.

Why the hell does the new generation need their own Jaws? Is the original not good enough?

Tom Cruise In Preacher?

CruiseI honestly don’t know what surprised me most: news that Tom Cruise is making a cameo in the forthcoming Preacher pilot or that the synopsis of the storyline includes this:

In the premiere, an unknown force from outer space possess preachers around the world, and eventually makes them blow up, inside out.

A “force from outer space”? What the hell? I know they’ve got to make some changes to the source material but really: an “unknown force from outer space”?

Have to admit, that doesn’t bode well.

Deadpool – Just Watch It, Already

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I’m not a massive Marvel fan – I don’t get a single Marvel superhero title – and don’t think I’ve got a single appearance of Deadpool in my comics collection (scuttles off, checks his database – nope, not a one) so everything I know about this character, I know from the internet.

Thank you, internet.

Deadpool is funny, filthy, sweary, violent, fast . . . oh, and really funny, too. It works – Ryan Reynolds is just spot on and this more than makes up for the Green Lantern from a few years ago (and hey, I was one of four people who actually liked that film)

If you haven’t already seen it then go and do so now. And, as usual these days, stick with the credits for a mid-credits Matthew Broderick style scene.

Best superhero film of 2016 so far.