The Fast and the Furious franchise departed the whole “Street Racing” element at around the fifth film, and since then they’ve focused mostly on crazy heists with high-octane action sequences — each one trying to outdo the previous entry — and then with The Fate of the Furious, any semblance of reality was gleefully dispatched. Now, with…
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) – Review
Let me take you back to 1969 when hippies were around every corner, westerns were one of the most popular movies to make, and Hollywood was one of the biggest places to be for an actor. It was also the year that the infamous Manson family murders took place, led by one of the evilest…
The Curse of La Llorona (2019) – Review
With The Curse of La Llorona we get the eighth installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise — that’s eight films in just six years — and with that James Wan has almost created a horror subgenre all his own. Like many of the films in this series, the supernatural events are loosely, and I mean very loosely,…
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) – Review
In the previous animated feature Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, we saw Mystery Incorporated meet honest-to-goodness aliens, making it the gang’s first real foray into science fiction, but with Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, the franchise ratchets the sci-fi element up to eleven. This time out, Scooby-Doo and friends find themselves digitized and sucked into…
The Quake (2018) – Review
In 2015, the Norwegian film industry put forth their first entry in the disaster genre with a film called The Wave (Bølgen) by director Roar Uthaug, which dealt with a rockslide-tsunami incident that wiped out a small community. Now, three years later, Norway is back at it with its sequel The Quake (Skjelvet), where a…