The amount of good movies based on video games can be counted on one hand, even if that hand has lost a couple fingers due to poor fireworks handling, but director Brad Peyton teams up with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson…
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“Who are we if we can’t protect our children?” This is a question put forward by Emily Blunt’s character in director John Krasinski’s horror film A Quiet Place, which deals with a lone family trying to survive in world now…
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“I never believed in Heaven, but I learned to believe in Hell, when mom sent me there.” That is the first line of the 1993 sci-fi horror movie Arcade as spoken by the lead protagonist, a teenager girl who had…
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Based on Ernest Cline’s best-selling book of the same name Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One could honestly be marketed as Pop Culture References: The Movie, and to be honest if you’ve seen the trailer that shouldn’t be much of a…
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Who doesn’t love giant robots fighting giant monsters? In 2013 director Guillermo del Toro took that love and made a decent Kaiju movie out of it called Pacific Rim, but instead of your basic Saturday afternoon matinee fight fest the…
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Video game adaptations have always been a dodgy prospect, who can forget Van Damme’s Streetfighter or the horrible Mario Brothers movie (no matter how hard we try), but transforming the Tomb Raider game into a movie always seemed like an…
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Man versus nature is a very popular genre, generating quite a few films ranging from such classics as Jaws to simply fun films like Lake Placid, but then we have the subgenre that deals with man and science mucking around…
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Science fiction movies released prior to 1969 and the actual moon landing ranged from the somewhat series entries like George Pal’s Destination Moon (1950) to the more campier type of Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) variety, but regardless of the…
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There are low budget movies, there are next-to-nothing budgeted movies, and then there is 1978’s Laserblast which looked as if it’s budget consisted mostly of whatever loose change producer Charles Band managed to find under the seat cushions in a…
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When person embarks on making any kind of murder mystery one must ask the question, “What makes my thriller about a crazed killer stand out from others of its kind?” Does the movie have a brilliant but eccentric detective? Is…
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