by Francis Friel, The Projectionist

Part Five: I Want To Take His Brain…Out!

I’d say the estates of Curt Siodmak and Clarence Upson Young have a definite case against Jordan Peele. They need to get on this, cause if they think no one’s ever gonna notice that he straight-up ripped off Black Friday and The Strange Case of Doctor Rx then I’m here to set them on the right path. I noticed!

by Francis Friel, The Projectionist

Part Four: The Mummy Eternally Returns

For whatever reason, the Christopher Nolan Batman films keep popping up in my orbit recently. Cab drivers asking me if I like them, writers online prematurely comparing Phoenix to Ledger, my YouTube recommendations shoving analysis videos at me. But it’s got me thinking about the thing that always bugged me the most about them. Taken as a whole, the overarching premise kind of makes no sense, in that the progression of Begins to Dark Knight to Rises covers the span of about nine years wherein Bruce Wayne was dressing up and fighting crime as Batman for about…what, two weeks? The time compression of the storytelling is a little much, is what I’m saying. None of it adds up. But it’s not the first film series to get wonky with its timeline. If you’ve seen the Universal Mummy movies, you know what I’m talking about.