Everyone knows that Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen was an over-the-top Die Hard rip-off that had more explosions than plot, and only managed to hit 48% on the Rotten Tomatoes, but it did pull in $161,000,000 million in worldwide box office receipts, thus the sequel London Has Fallen was greenlit.
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Movies
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) – Review
With Marvel and DC trying to outdo each other in their cinematic ventures, one can easily forget that two years ago Michael Bay tried his hand at a comic franchise of his own.
The Forest (2016) – Review
If a ghost goes boo in the forest does anybody care? Hollywood has made several remakes of various Japanese horror films over the years, some successful others not-so-much, but surprisingly enough though this movie does take place in Japan it is not an American remake of the Japanese movie, The Forest is bad all on…
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) – Review
2016’s Alice Through the Looking Glass arrived with all the confidence of a film that assumes you’ll be dazzled into submission, and all the substance of a screensaver. What should have been a whimsical return to Wonderland instead feels like a contractual obligation stretched to feature length. Even worse, it somehow takes a world built…
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) – Review
In this movie the mutant speedster Quicksilver saves a bunch of Charles Xavier’s gifted youngsters when the X-Mansion blows up. Sadly that is about the only true heroic moment in this film.