With the successful adaptations of two Sin City movies, based on the Frank Miller comics, it must have seemed like a great idea to give the man a shot at adapting the Will Eisner comic to the big screen as he was a big fan of the character, unfortunately, in the case of those Sin…
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Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) – Review
In 1998, director Renny Harlin helmed a fun little shark movie called Deep Blue Sea, where we learned from Ice Cube that his “hat is like a shark’s fin,” but then two decades later, we got the straight-to-video sequel Deep Blue Sea 2, which showed us that maybe a sequel about his hat would have…
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” or “How to Write a Contrived Twist”
With Marvel’s Cinematic Universe literally pulling in billions of dollars, it’s no surprise that others would try and cash in on the whole “Shared Universe” idea, but where some, such as The Conjuring Universe, succeeded — now sitting at eight films — others like Universal’s Dark Universe failed miserably with only one film getting made before…
Captain Marvel (2019) – Review
With twenty-one films currently making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one has to be chagrined that it took this long for the studio to give us a superhero movie with a female lead — it took the DC Extended Universe only four films to break out Wonder Woman, yet we’re still waiting for a Black…
Big Game (2014) – Review
Movies that pit a kid, or a group of children, against adults fill a certain wish fulfilment in a particular demographic because what kid didn’t imagine he was one of the Goonies, hunting pirate treasure while the nasty Fratelli family were hot on their heels? And who didn’t want to be Kevin McAllister as he…