Right next to The Huntsman Winters War, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, you will find Blair Witch listed among 2016’s most unnecessary sequels. The original 1999 phenomenon The Blair Witch Project captivated audiences around the globe using handheld footage. This would be the first time a […]
It’s been six years since Oscar winning actress Renee Zellweger’s last film. It’s been 12 years since Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Zellweger’s attempt at a comeback begins with breathing life back into a character that doesn’t seem to have a place in this new decade. Despite rumors of a change in appearance, Zellweger
The Bourne series which began in 2002 with director Doug Liman instantly became Oscar winner Matt Damon’s most successful acting venture. The 2004 sequel “The Bourne Supremacy” was handed over to director Paul Greengrass (“United 93”, “Captain Phillips”) who revitalized the series. Greengrass returned to finish out the trilogy in “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007), but
The rebooted franchise started to slip with Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), the new had started to wear off, I believe I said. Star Trek Beyond, with new director Justin Lin of the Fast & Furious, feels more like an episode rather than a motion picture event. While Beyond certainly gives you the bang and
This is the seventh in a series of Ice Age films, and is largely empty animation and special effects without much of a story. My interest was piqued when I saw that Neil DeGrasse Tyson was going to be one of the voices in the film, in hopes that it would have some educational value;
Disney’s Pixar again delivers a colorful, sharply animated fantasy for children. Dory (Degeneres), the blue fish has short-term memory loss, and frequently loses her way, despite the best efforts of her parents to teach her strategies she can use to find her way home. Unfortunately, soon after the story begins, she gets lost after an
You may not know who Jon M. Chu is, you probably haven’t seen any of his movies. He is the director behind such reboots like Jem and the Holograms (18% on rottentomatoes.com), sequels such as G.I. Joe: Retaliation (28%), but let us not forget his historic collaborations with Justin Bieber on “Believe” and “Never Say
Another day, another unnecessary sequel. The original Alice in Wonderland (2010) director Tim Burton has abandoned the project (still a producer) while The Muppets director James Bobin takes over. For all intents and purposes Alice Through the Looking Glass appears to be the same; familiar cast, characters, and style. However, it’s a complete departure from
I went into this superhero movie, sequel, franchise with arms crossed. Annoyed that my summers are now filled with just one comic book adaptation after another. While X-Men Apocalypse (the 6th film in the series) hits theaters three weeks after Marvel’s other franchise Captain America debuted, they screened them for critics back to back. My
The 13th film in the Marvel universe, they just keep feeding us the same stuff. Marvel movies are like dry pet food, your cat and dog will lap up the same stuff daily. But as humans, give us the same food three or four days in a row, and we want something different. Daniel Brühl,