When making a killer shark movie there is one thing a filmmaker must first come to grips with — that you will not be making a film better than Spielberg’s Jaws; it’s just not going to happen, and with the release of Warner Brothers summer flick The Meg, it’s clear that director Jon Turteltaub understands…
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Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) – Review
What can you expect from a sequel almost two decades late and that goes straight-to-video? Well certainly don’t expect much from Deep Blue Sea 2, as it could either be billed as “The sequel that no one wanted” or, more accurately, “A carbon copy of the original minus the fun.” As this film stars a bunch of…
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) – Review
If you’ve heard of the historic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, there’s a good chance you first learned of the event from Robert Shaw’s stirring monologue in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws, and now decades later, we get another, and vastly longer, retelling of the story by director Mario Van Peebles. Why any studio thought the…
Jaws: The Revenge (1987) – Review
No movie series epitomizes the Hollywood sequel machine and the “Law of Diminishing Returns” more than the Jaws series.
Jaws 3-D (1983) – Review
After Jaws 2 hit theatres and was the highest-grossing sequel up to that point in time, producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck were interested in making the third installment a send-up of the previous two films, entitled Jaws 3, People 0.