Sorry, Pirates fans: the fifth installment in this titanic franchise does little to put the ship back on course. Like 2011’s On Stranger Tides, Dead Men Tell No Tales is dead in the water. Back in 2003, the half-baked marketing scheme of developing a theme park ride at Disneyland into a movie turned out to... Continue Reading →
In an age when film producers feel a summer movie isn’t worth making that doesn’t include overwhelming CGI, constant explosions, and a hundred million dollar-plus budget, restraint is not dead. Your proof is Doug Liman’s The Wall. No, we’re not talking about that movie set in China with Matt Damon, we’re talking about a tight-knit... Continue Reading →
The xenomorphs are back. After their introduction in Ridley Scott’s sophisticated and inventive sci-fi/horror masterpiece Alien in 1979, the terrifying creatures have been returning to cineplexes off-and-on again for close to 40 years. Alien: Covenant is the eighth film in the series if you include those shameless Alien vs. Predator films, and Ridley Scott has... Continue Reading →
Summer blockbuster season is in full swing. After we were treated last week with a stellar franchise building-block in the form of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. II, this week in wide release we have the season’s first sure-fire Razzie contender in the form of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. King Arthur is the... Continue Reading →
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