“Jon Carter,” “Van Helsing,” “Scorpion King,” and “Jupiter Ascending” provide great company for “It Chapter Two,” another disappointing, big-budget studio release. Full disclosure: I wasn’t a fan of the 2017 remake, but this bloated sequel is far worse. The most obvious problem is the entirely unnecessary three-hour running time. The decision to regurgitate much of the […]
The SXSW fan boys have done it again, blown a mediocre movie out of proportion, due to whatever substance or natural high they take before watching movies at the party movie festival. Fact is, Pet Sematary was never a very good story. Most Stephen King works have proved quite difficult to adapt into movie form
The 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “It” was a forgettable 192-minute mini-series. The director of the throw-away horror flick “Mama,” Andy Muscheitti, re-envisions the cult classic along with a variety of screenwriters, including Cary Fukunaga (“Beasts of No Nation”), who was originally selected as the director. Putting aside the more dramatic cinematic adaptions of King,
The long-awaited Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower is a disaster on nearly every level. The most confounding part of it is how any movie with Elba and McConaughey could be this bland. The “McConaissance” has officially ended. Looking at the selection of King novels adapted to the big screen, there are more duds than