Browsing: Shark

Shark films are their own special little aquatic corner of cinema, and the margin between good and bad is fathoms apart. One of the more recent carcharodon carcharias-centric flicks 47 Meters Down is actually getting a sequel, and we’ve got the first teaser trailer for it. Called 47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter, the film is more […]

This reviewer has been waiting [impatiently] for the film adaptation of Steve Alten’s novel “The Meg” for many, many years. Perhaps you’ll recall that Disney had actually optioned the title as far back as the 90’s, and it’s been sitting at the bottom of the development-hell ocean for decades. Imagine my absolute delight when word […]

Sharks are perennially a sure thing when it comes to pop culture. Every year we get Shark Week, and SYFY still laughs all the way to the bank every time they kick out another Sharknado film. So when something like The Meg trailer came along, it was like blood in the water with fans of […]

There are fewer true joys in the summer than Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week. This year the aquatic fete will hit 30 years on the air, and they’ve got some pretty big programming lined up to celebrate. These are just some highlights of the 2018 Shark Week schedule: On Sunday, July 22 at 7pm (EST) Alien […]

At last, someone has made my dreams come true in game form: Maneater, where you can play as a freaking bull shark. Revealed during the annual PC Gaming Show portion of E3, Maneater has everything, including a skill tree for the playable sea creature. You were cut from your mother’s body and left to die […]

Warner Bros. had my money when they announced they were turning Steve Alten’s 1997 book “The Meg” into a movie.  Then, word came that it’d be Jason Statham in the lead, and I knew I was probably going to LOVE this film. I love shark movies, I don’t care how bad they are, I’ll see them.  […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] Shark movies is another flavor of horror genre that I’m typically a very easy lay for. The Shallows is a very slick production and better quality than we’ve gotten over the last many years from Syfy’s collection of Sharknado films. Most often shark films are campy fun, but every so often someone takes […]