Kristen Stewart (Charlie's Angels, Snow White and the Huntsman) and Katy O'Brian (Jentorra in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) will star in this romantic crime thriller by director Rose Glass (director of Saint Maud). Supposedly the film is about "A romance fueled by ego, desire and the American Dream." No further plot details have been revealed other than it involving a romantic plot between its two main characters, one of them being a kind of deadbeat-like street girl and the other one a brawny beautie.
The film looks great so far and it's apparently going to have a nice underground vibe throughout it. I assume the main character's father will be the center of the conflict and the girls will have a troublesome relationship as the story advances.
This is a great treat to all of us who are always looking for more body diversity in Hollywood and mainstream media, not to mention the LGBT angle they are playing. It seems like an interesting new rendition of the seedy crime flick from back in the day, only with a female cast (Bound was a good addition but it's not a subgenre that's incredibly well known for most members of the public). Always great to see more genre movies with action ladies in them.
We can expect a new trailer probably in a couple of months as the movie will come out next year in march. Very excited about it.
I can't in good conscience say this one was as bad as people say. I had a lot of fun, even with its dumb ideas and flaws, it's not a movie I would call terrible or awful because it features a lot of fun scenes and even some laughs.
Bloodrayne was based on a videogame of the same name, I might get to it eventually for the blog but the movie is so different it doesn't even matter. It was directed by the guy who made lots of bad video game adaptations in the last two decades, Uwe Boll. He gave us some really fun trashy movies with female heroes, such as the Bloodrayne movies and Blubberella, all of them widely hated.
I will begin this cycle of Boll heroines with the first film in the Bloodrayne trilogy. It's about a female vampire named Rayne, played by Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3, Mercenaries, Dark Power, Bounty Killer), whose mother was abused and murdered by Kagan, the vampire king. Being in the 18th century, she's held captive in a freakshow, but she escapes and meets with a group of vampire slayers, joining them in their quest of destroying the vampire King.
Rayne is a stoic and mostly emotionless vampire/vampire slayer but she means good and doesn't attack innocent people, in fact, she often saves humans from vicious bloodsuckers. She gets her signature blades because they were part of the act of a girl she was friends with at the carnival, the girl got bitten by Rayne before escaping (and was eventually killed by her nemesis) but the main character grew attached to her weapon in order to remember her only friend during those dark times.
The vampire hunters are searching for Rayne because they are aware of her being a relative of the vampire king but she eventually wins their trust and they team up. The best scenes are the fight scenes, predictably, even if they are too clunky and edited way too fast to be properly followed. I loved the sequence of Rayne entering the monastery in order to find a talisman and encountering several badly rendered spinning blades and a ghastly-looking deformed monster with a huge hammer.
The protagonist is serviceable and fun to watch but her relationship with the main male hero is very rushed and unconvincing, they even have sex before the last act, which is a very forced and exploitative scene that makes zero sense.
Michelle Rodriguez is there too, she plays Katarin, another member of the vampire killers. She initially seems like the typical badass girl of the group, known territory for Rodriguez but the plot has her being jealous and wary of Rayne, only to have her betray the vampire slayers and our heroine. Rayne and Katarin have a good training session with a rivalry subtext that makes it fun and their underwater battle it's another highlight.
There are also some generic henchwomen and warrior ladies among the good guys and the vampires. Nothing too noticeable but for an action/fantasy movie of the time this features some neat female presence in its cast. So it's not without its merits.
Two new trailers for female led superhero projects by Marvel and DC dropped recently.
First off, we have a full trailer for the new superheroine movie: The Marvels, which teams up Captain Marvel, Photon and Ms. Marvel, two of them already starred in feature films (Kamala had her own show) but Photon had a secondary role in Wandavision besides being introduced in the first Captain Marvel movie. The trio will stop the Kree and figure out why they are swapping places every time they use their powers.
Can Marvel finally have their own female-only superhero movie and make it good? Who knows. It looks fine for what it is but I am not getting my hopes up high because the last few superheroine movies weren't all that great. It's good to see that they have been giving women a more respectable place in the franchise in recent years, considering what they used to do with Black Widow and all that.
Hopefully it will deliver.
Next up, Harley Quinn and her friends will give us more laughs in this brand new season of her show. I remember liking this series for the most part but it became a bit tiresome and self complacent for much of it. It just kind of felt like a normie show that didn't require much thought or knowledge about the comics, which is fine, we are dealing with its own version here, enough people like it to make it worth watching after all these years.
Looks like they will keep up the sex and violence, raunchiness is the show’s bread and butter, with the writers being moderately successful at it. It goes overboard sometimes and it’s also, again, very normie with that subject too, evidenced by the fact that Nightwings butt will be a pivotal part of the show in this new season, which is an old tired joke that stopped being relevant years ago for comic fans.
Either way, it does look fun so far. I hope it will be good.
Gotta say, for comic book and geek media, this is another good sign of progress. It's nice the way we have gotten more mainstream female lead movies and tv shows. Keep them coming!
