THE CROW (2024) (R) Dir. Rupert Sanders There is not enough ‘guyliner,’ Skarsgård muscle, bloody action, or emotional weight to make this cult favorite remake worth the effort to reanimate… Grade (1.5/5.0) Some films become cult classics by sheer virtue of existence; other films achieve that status through perseverance in fandom appreciation, retrospective re-examination, […]
Running Time: 115 minutes Rated R Grade C+ Best known as the clown from the 2017 remake of It, we didn’t see much of the younger Bill Skarsgård in those sequels. His less-than-memorable appearances in other action and horror films like Barbarian and John Wick: Chapter 4 have done little for his career. Boy Kills World puts Skarsgård at the center
“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 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,