Taika Waititi and Marvel Studios should apologize to Jack Kirby, Stan Lee estates, Larry Lieber as well as Walt Simonson, for the tragic representation of Thor in the new MCU film, “Thor: Love and Thunder.” This is the fourth film in the hero’s journey to “find himself” with Chris HemsworthContinue Reading

From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes the thrilling blockbuster battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by a young man named Sam (Shia LaBeouf). TeamingContinue Reading

Following “Doctor Strange,” director Scott Derrickson returns to his horror roots with “The Black Phone,” a new horror thriller from Blumhouse, starring Ethan Hawke. Hawke stars as The Grabber, a serial child kidnapper terrorizing a small Colorado town in 1978. Finney Shaw (Mason Thames) is a shy kid, smart, abusedContinue Reading

The third and final “Jurassic World” film, “Jurassic World Dominion,” arrives in theaters on Friday, closing out the new trilogy with stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Set after the events of “Fallen Kingdom,” dinosaurs are now roaming the Earth, forcing the humans always be on guard against theContinue Reading

Ahead of the ERASER: REBORN release on Digital, Blu-ray™ and DVD on June 7, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, there are some great photos and clips. The all-new original film, ERASER: REBORN, a reboot of the 1996 blockbuster, follows US Marshal Mason Pollard, a specialist in engineering the fake deaths of witnessesContinue Reading

Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has become the No. 6 film ever globally, passing Jurassic World ($1.67B) and The Lion King ($1.662B) as the film regained the top spot at the box office. The film has now earned $970.1M from the international box office, Domestic is at $721M+, resulting in a shocking total of $1.69B worldwide. The new Spider-ManContinue Reading

A new Grinch film features Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Doctor Strange) as the voice of the green, Christmas hating creature. If you are expecting a something superior to the 1966 TV version from director Chuck Jones, with wicked Boris Karloff voicing the mean one, you will be highly disappointed. This new version fromContinue Reading

Director James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” is more “Deadpool” than “Guardians of the Galaxy” because the film is more Quentin Tarantino than MCU. A sequel to the 2016 film disaster, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) organizes more supervillains to face the impossible mission, willing to sacrifice these characters to achieve mission.Continue Reading

Happy Birthday Barack! HBO kicked off “Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union” for the former President’s 60th birthday and clearly are to set to highlight Obama’s rhetoric and lofty promises foreshadowing the racial division and failures seen in 2021. Opening with Obama’s 2008 race speech, the focus onContinue Reading

After a surprising blockbuster, star and director John Krasinski returns for “A Quiet Place 2,” a sequel attempting to match the silent theater experience of the original. Opening with brief visit to Day One of the “invasion,” Lee (Krasinski) and his family are caught up in a struggle to survive.Continue Reading

Imagine Paramount plucking a bland martial arts film about a man seeking to avenge his father’s death out of a pile of optioned scripts and assigning it to screenwriter Jonathan Lemkin to transform it into a G.I. Joe film and you can understand how Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins wasContinue Reading

Karen Gillan stars in her own version of John Wick with Gunpowder Milkshake. Absurdity and fun can co-exist in this action genre where bullets can fly and the protagonist can tackle dozens of thugs to walk away, sometimes without a scratch. Sam (Gillan) learns, via flashback, that her mother, ScarletContinue Reading

An all-star cast in a film about Bonnie and Clyde is never about the famous outlaws, but rather the pair set to end their crime spree across several states. A rather sluggish script hinders any intrigue as The Highwaymen becomes a docudrama rather than anything interesting. Set in 1934 asContinue Reading

Audiences will likely roll their eyes at the poster or advertisement for “The Marksman,” as Liam Neeson’s brand has been tainted by his growing resume of formulated action films such as “The Commuter,” “Non-Stop,” and “Cold Pursuit.” Neeson stars as Jim Hanson, an Arizona rancher, mourning the loss of hisContinue Reading

Clint Eastwood‘s High Plains Drifter feel like Blumhouse made a Sergio Leone spaghetti western, adding elements of horror to the classic western genre. Similar to the “Man with No Name” role in Sergio Leone’s Dollar Trilogy, Eastwood rides into remote mining town as cigar chewing gunslinger. The Stranger is quickly confronted byContinue Reading

While not a re-make, the 1960 Magnificent Seven film adapted Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai to the Old West with an all-star cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steven McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. A gang of bandits, led by Calvera (Wallach), raids a poor Mexican village for food andContinue Reading

The Coen Brothers’ remake of the 1969 Henry Hathaway picture, True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, is both entertaining and shockingly superior to the original with John Wayne. With a darker and more humorous approach, Bridges now takes the Wayne role of Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn, an obnoxious alcoholic U.S. Marshal, hiredContinue Reading