When 1989’s Batman made over $400 million worldwide the idea of a follow-up film was a no-brainer, but Tim Burton wasn’t all that interested in returning to the world of Gotham City and this left the studio a little stressed, with big money on the line, and the execs over at Warner Brothers were not…
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Dumbo (2019) – Review
How do you take an animated classic like Dumbo, a film that was barely over an hour in length, and then turn it into a two-hour live-action summer blockbuster? This was the problem facing director Tim Burton but the fact that he was also the man who started this whole Disney live-action-remake binge in the…
American Assassin (2017) – Review
When Matt Damon took on the role of Robert Ludlum’s titular hero Jason Bourne way back in 2002, it created a shift in the action-spy genre that radically changed audience expectations. Thus, when a movie based on a book from popular action/thriller author Stephen Flynn was released, a certain level of balls-to-the-wall audacity was expected….
The Many Faces of Batman
With the horrifying image of a giant bat this hero strikes fear into the hearts of the superstitious and cowardly lot of Gotham’s underworld, Batman, the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, the World’s Greatest Detective, whose never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way…wait, no, that’s the other guy. Next to Superman, you’d be…