How do you top a movie that dealt with a global catastrophe that resulted in cities sliding into the sea and tsunamis cresting the Himalayas? Not an easy task and this was the problem facing writer/director Roland Emmerich when he attempted to outdo his own epic disaster 2012, a film that was a clear attempt…
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Annabelle Comes Home (2019) – Review
The Conjuring Universe, created by James Wan, has put forth some decent entries into the horror genre, but it’s also released its fair share of cinematic duds along the way. With Annabelle Comes Home, we get an entry that falls in the middle of the pack. Director Gary Dauberman was the original screenwriter for 2014’s…
Aquaman (2018) – Review
Has Warner Brothers and DC Comics given up on their Extended Universe? Having most of their projects being critically drubbed, as well as getting spanked in the box office by Marvel, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that the studio execs were rethinking their superhero film strategy. Case in point, their latest outing, the special…
The Conjuring 2 (2016) – Review
“If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?” Well apparently if you’re the Catholic Church you don’t call the Ghostbusters, you call Ed and Loraine Warren instead. In 2010 director James Wan terrified audience with his horror film Insidious and then in 2013 he doubled down and broke box office records for…
Bone Tomahawk (2015) – Review
With the theatres packed with superheroes and found footage movies, I found the western/horror film Bone Tomahawk to be a really nice break. Now genre mash-ups are tricky beasts at the best of times, and westerns not always an easy sell to modern audiences, but writer-director S. Craig Zahler manages to work the western-horror blend…