In the lead-up to the release of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage spoke of the countless VOD titles he had littered his filmography with over the last decade-or-so – film choices made primarily to pay off serious debt – with a positive tongue. Whilst such trashy thrillers as Inconceivable, Trespass, and Left…
Read MoreFew movies from 1999 can boast as much as The Matrix. A groundbreaking effort, both in terms of its special effects and its allegoric mentality, The Wachowski‘s post-apocalyptic, philosophical action film pushed the boundaries of modern cinema, exceeding audience expectation in the process. Maintaining a cultural relevance in the decades since essentially allows such a…
Read MoreNearly 20 years after it was released, The Matrix still remains a culturally relevant blueprint for which other genre films are based on. Breaking boundaries and expectations in the decades since, with such bold efforts as Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending, director Lana Wachowski has returned to the very IP that launched a phenomenon with…
Read MoreRight from the opening credits, A Series of Unfortunate Events consistently reminds you this tale is not for the fainthearted. Author Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton) reiterates as the narrator of the series that the story is dreadful, melancholy and not for those looking for a happy narrative – but for Netflix, the self-aware entertainment bodes a mysterious and…
Read MoreThe dreadful tale of the Baudelaire children is about to come to life again, this time on the small screen in Netflix‘s Lemony Snicket’s: A Series of Unfortunate Events in 2017. A first look trailer was released earlier today, giving us our first look at Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf, who is giving off a MAJOR creep factor vibe….
Read MoreHow I Met Your Mother graduate and awards season staple Neil Patrick Harris will star in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris will try his hand at the villainous Count Olaf, a role that previously gifted us all with peak Jim Carey in the 2004 film adaptation. According to Deadline, Harris…
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