Hollywood has provided moviegoers with many post-apocalyptic movies, from the Planet of the Apes franchise to the Mad Max series – the aftermath of “The End of the World” has always been great cinema fodder – but with Disney’s Reign of Fire we get a rather odd entry as it tosses a fantasy element into…
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Geostorm (2017) – Review
Geostorm is a political/thriller/science fiction action film disguised as a disaster movie; the marketing of this film is clearly hoping to get fans of such films as The Day After Tomorrow and San Andreas , but even though this film does contain moments of massive destruction, as nature runs amok, this movie is more about…
Gods of Egypt (2016) – Review
With the movie Gods of Egypt director Alex Proyas tries to give us a break from all the Greek mythology-based movies and show us some of the marvels of the Egyptian pantheon, alas what we get is nothing more than retreaded visuals from the 2010 Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia. Similarities to…
London Has Fallen (2016) – Review
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.
300 (2006) – Review
Frank Miller is easily one of the most well-known comic book creators of today, and many of his works have managed to make it to the big screen, but it was when in 2005 that director Robert Rodriguez helmed the adaptation of his graphic novel Sin City that noncomic book fans took notice – its worldwide box take…