The Lego Batman Movie review: give a minifig
A great Batman movie, a great superhero movie, and a gloriously bonkers expression of the sublime silliness of crime fighters in capes, and our love of them.
Seth Grahame-Smith
from Facebook: another inexperienced male director snags big Hollywood film
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (review)
The best thing about this pile-on of pulpy historical pseudo revisionism: it works. Timur Bekmambetov treats it sincerely, but cheerfully so: the film isn’t without a subversively gentle sense of humor, yet it’s never so earnest that it stumbles over into cheese.
Dark Shadows (review)
Hoorah for Tim Burton and the new nadir of narcissistic awfulness he achieves here. Dark Shadows dares to be nothing but the wisp of its own conceit.
watch it: “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
As related to today’s QOTD: This is a “trailer” for the new book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.], which will be released soon. That’s interesting enough — trailers for books? neat — but it’s extra interesting because the Guardian is reporting that a movie is already in … more…
