From the director of “The Expendables 3” comes a film that’s as predictable and by the books as you can get in the action genre. If there are surprises along the way, it’s at the monstrous running time and complete change of direction in subject matter. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” has a tonal problem. Poor Gary […]
This marks the 5th big screen adaptation of King Kong, and only twelve years after Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings”) put him back on screen. Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s sophomore film is an enormous leap from the tiny independent movie “The Kings of Summer” (2013) to this nearly $200 million dollar monster flick. What works;
Although it’s an obvious attempt to fill a void left by Harry Potter in the young adult fantasy genre, Tim Burton’s latest Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children doesn’t have the originality many start-up franchises do. Burton’s decision to use more practical tricks than visual effects certainly make the segments in and around the iconic
The brilliance of director David Yates final four Harry Potter films are all lost inside his latest epic Legend of Tarzan. Of course it doesn’t help that audiences/critics might feel over saturated with this tale. We just saw the Disney family version of basically the same story – boy raised in the jungle, becomes friends
Auteur filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is arguably one of the great American talents. His films which he writes, directs, produces and often edits, create such fanfare that the noise, more than anything, drive people to the theater.
Besides the whopping amount of talent in the latest Spike Lee Joint (is he still calling his films that?), there is also a healthy dose of good intention. Spike Lee is a true artist, he doesn’t follow any particular path, he doesn’t play the marketing or Hollywood game, in fact he never has.
Everything about Avengers: Age of Ultron is exhausting, from the cast list to the running time and especially the never-ending onslaught of comic book movies. We watch the same heroes fight the same battles and save the world over and over. ‘Ultron’ feels in every possible way like any franchise’s middle part. The Avengers (2012)
At first, when Kingsman moved from fall 2014 to winter 2015, I worried it was because there was something wrong with the film, as is usually the case for a date change. However, Matthew Vaughn’s first film since X-Men: First Class (only his 5th to date) is anything but a problem; it’s the solution for