Assassins and contract killers in movies have had a long and storied history, from the cool and professional assassins like Max Von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor to the more dynamically sharp-dressing badasses like John Wick, but we don’t get too many movies with a female in this particular job set so when…
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It Chapter Two (2019) – Review
Don’t play with your food. If any advice were to be given to the murderous entity known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, that would be it. It’s just not going to end well for the villain. This adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror opus continues where the 2017 movie finished off, with the now much…
Dark Phoenix (2019) – Review
Marvel’s “The Dark Phoenix Saga” was a comic book story arc that took four years to tell and ran across about forty issues — we’re talking major epic here — so when 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand used the Dark Phoenix as a “B” plot to Magneto’s fight against the mutant “cure,” fans were less…
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016) – Review
The original story of Snow White is a very simple tale; a vain and evil queen wants the potential rival of her beauty murdered, a huntsman fakes her death and the young girl is helped later by a bunch of dwarves.
Crimson Peak (2015) – Review
If a Mario Bava movie married a Dario Argento film and then shacked up in Hammer Studios the result would have most likely looked a lot like Crimson Peak.