THE GREY: MAN VS. WOLF

Coming to U.S. theaters on January 27 in what looks to be quite a thriller is THE GREY, starring Liam Neeson. While the wolves in this film appear more like the regular four-pawed kind, there are hints of the supernatural to the story. From the trailer shown below, the film's subtitle could easily be called, "Wolf vs. Food".

The "First Look" story is from TOTAL FILM, December 2011.

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WHY BAD MONSTER MOVIES ARE GOOD MONSTER MOVIES

As sure as the moon rises, the film industry will keep cranking out so-called "B-movies". The "B" is usually referred to -- especially with monster movies -- as "Bad", but you won't catch film studios and distributors thinking twice -- it hasn't stopped them since Roger Corman perfected the art form way back in the 1950's.

In the December, 2011 issue of TOTAL FILM magazine, a writer tries to explain the phenomenon -- why these film are made . . . and why we love them so much, framed in the context of the soon-to-be-released PIRANHA 3DD, the sequal of the movie that used more gallons of blood (and possibly on more cleavage) than any other film before it.

PIRANHA 3DD TRAILER

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HAS "DARK" LOST ITS SPARK?

The highly anticipated TV-movie remake of DON"T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK suffered from lukewarm attendance at the theaters and has so far earned a little over $30 Million dollars at the box office. Since it disappeared fron screens after only a week or two, it is likely that any additional revenue will come from the DVD market.

Here is coverage of the movie from TOTAL FILM magazine's October 2011 issue.

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SCI-FI FILMS BY THE NUMBERS

We earthlings like lists. Maybe it's to create some sort of order in our puny human binary brains. Maybe it's to reassure the priority of things for our puny human binary brains. Whatever the reason, the film industry uses lists all the time to let us know what's best and to leave the rest . . . in whoever's opinion, that is.

The UK A4-sized TOTAL FILM magazine had two -- count 'em -- two, lists in their August 2011 issue. For your puny human binary brains, here's the list:

1. The 10 Coolest Sci-Fi Films Being Made Right Now
2. The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made

And here are the articles: 

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TYPE "O" IN 3D

What do Bram Stoker's most famous creation, a well-known Giallo film director, and an ex-Blade Runner turned Hobo With a Shotgun have in common? Dario Argento will be directing Rutger Hauer as Dr. Van Helsing in a movie entitled DRACULA 3D, that's what! The news clip above from TOTAL FILM magazine, October 2011, explains more.

Oh, and unless you've figured out a way to enlarge pictures after clicking on a blog image that end up, FaceBook style in a new window, you'll have to either enlarge your brower magnification or download the image and enlarge it with your image browser to read the text. I discovered this Blogger "improvement" after reviewing my last DEADTIME STORIES features before posting them. This time I managed to be able to set up the image so that you don't need to click on it to read it, but I won't be so lucky every time.

I'm losing my patience with Blogger noodling around trying to "make things better". Take the new Dashboard interface -- no, I mean it. Go ahead, take it, 'cause I don't need it. Mine's working just fine, thank you very much. If they really wanted to impress me, they'd focus their attention and make a more serviceable, WYSIWYG composing tool -- and, throw in an easy Design element for embedding sound into a blog. Oh well, that's all I'll say for the moment. I'll just continue to suffer in silence . . .

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