Meta-Movies Here to Stay?

  While many have justly pegged a good deal of Cloverfield‘s success is taken straight from the Blair Witch marketing handbook, the fact remains that Web 2.0 helped matters accelerate more so than the first time around. What this translates into is that while there were multiple sites and Facebook entries, nobody was trying to […]

Why aren’t Horror Movies Scary Anymore?

Nobody tries, there’s no sense of dread. Just the cinematic equivalent of “BOO! occassionally and the dwelling on torture and suffering. When horror movies have an upswing in popularity, that usually means that something is eating away at society and somehow this genre has found a way to depict it in a way that the […]

I’m Already Sick of Diablo Cody…

No, I haven’t seen Juno, and I doubt that I will. Still, the hype on this chick is already on overkill. She used to be a stripper, (oooohhhhh! Does that mean that Jenna Jameson is ready to take meetings with Tom Hanks and Ron Howard?) she wrote a book about it, she came up with […]