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Hey. Thanks for reading this. And, more so, thanks for reading and commenting on everything else before this on TV-VCR. But, I’m sorry to say, this is all there will be to read. This is it. I hoped that by doing a unique thing, and keeping it going mostly on my own, with slight, curated […] The post TV-VCR has reached its end of tape appeared first on TV-VCR .
For all the years of attempts at needlessly making a movie out of Barbie—from an Amy Schumer comedy to an Anne Hathaway project—it’s wild that one seems to have really worked out as idealized as Barbie herself. Co-written and directed by Greta Gerwig, and, believe it or not, with stronger Margot Robbie foot material than […] The post Greta Gerwig’s <em>Barbie</em> indeed nails Barbie in new…
One of the last vestiges of the pre-Gunn DC comics movies, Blue Beetle sees Warner Bros. still playing catchup with Marvel both in looking like slop and in having a story about a wide-eyed teenage boy becoming a critter-based superhero with a needlessly-complex, multi-armed tech suit. Which is to say: Lookie here, it’s the trailer […] The post DC gets a Spider-Man with fewer legs with the <em>Blue…
Were the notable brand not attached, you’d swear this was the latest of so many vaguely-sci-fi thriller, straight-to-video trashbags Samuel L. Jackson dragged out for a paycheck. Yet—sorry to say—this is the trailer for Marvel’s Secret Invasion. Have a look! Is it another shoddy, muddy-looking mush born from the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the world […] The post Secret Invasion trailer…
From A Ghost Story, Pete’s Dragon, The Green Knight, to the upcoming Peter Pan & Wendy, director David Lowery has deftly jumped between A24 art-house fare to collecting a fat ol’ Disney paycheck. And with his next project being A24’s just-announced Mother Mary, it’s time to head back to the Mouse House coffers. According to […] The post Star Wars: David Lowery pivots from <em>A Ghost Story</em> to…
For all his naïvely-criticized sameness, damned if Wes Anderson doesn’t slightly reinvent being Wes Anderson for every movie he makes. The latest evidence? The charmingly blown-out dialogue and visuals in the trailer for his latest, Asteroid City. A quarter-century after Anderson gave Max Fischer his first lead role, Asteroid City sees Jason Schwartzman fronting a […] The post Wes Anderson’s…
Kenneth Branagh directed Disney’s live-action Cinderella. Jon Favreau gave us both Disney’s live-action Jungle Book and Lion King. Tim Burton brought us Disney’s live-action Dumbo—just before Guy Ritchie would make Disney’s live-action Aladdin. And soon, David Lowery will give us a live-action Peter Pan. This is only the tip of Disney’s live-action cartoon iceberg, but […] The post Questlove to…
Though his last couple efforts have been pretty blasé affairs, Adam McKay continues to draw in some top-tier talent for his increasingly lazy socio-political satires. The writer-director has reportedly set the stellar cast of Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr., Forest Whitaker, and Danielle DeadWyler for his latest, Average Height, Average Build. The film […] The post Adam McKay sets…
You have to sort of respect that Broken Lizard is a group that is not evolving at all. They nabbed an aging cult following with a very specific thing, and they aren’t trying to change it. They are not The Beatles of lazy stoner humor. They’re more like The Raconteurs, with just a handful of […] The post Broken Lizard do Hunchback of Notre Stoned in the <em>Quasi</em> trailer appeared first on…
The Room and Birdemic: Shock and Terror are two of the most notoriously, laughably, inexplicably poor indie films made this century. Now, it seems their Venn diagram of “Tommy Wiseau-directed madness” and “wretched animal genre schlock” has even more fully overlapped. Take a look: it’s the new trailer for Wiseau’s Big Shark! Wiseau’s first narrative […] The post Well, here’s Tommy Wiseau’s dubious…