DOCTOR WHO Series 8 Trailer Gets Dark |
DOCTOR WHO Series 8 Trailer Gets Dark Posted: 14 Jul 2014 02:00 AM PDT No more 15 second teases. With that August 23 premiere date fast approaching, the ol' Beeb give us a more proper trailer, with things looking mighty grim for Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor. As those things go, Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field In England) directs the first two episodes. How fitting.... |
Japan Cuts 2014 Review: MONSTERZ, In Which Nakata Hideo Misfires With A Lackluster Remake Posted: 13 Jul 2014 01:15 PM PDT The slow but steady decline of the once-great Nakata Hideo (The Ring, Chaos, Dark Water) continues unabated with his latest, Monsterz. This is a remake of Haunters, the 2010 Korean film by Kim Min-seok that itself was no classic, but had a goofy, shambling charm that almost overcame the profound preposterousness of its premise. Monsterz, then, on its face would seem to have not much reason for existing, and the end result more or less bears this out. Nakata ill-advisedly jettisons most of the humor of the original in favor of a mock-profound and deadly ponderous moodiness that seriously drags in its middle section before it picks up with an admittedly impressive finale, partly staged in an opera house. But by then, it's too little, too... |
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