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
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
Inside the world’s most popular video game is Guy, played by Ryan Reynolds, and he doesn’t want you to have a good day, but to have a great day. While FREE GUY may not make your day “great,” it certainly can put a smile on your face. Guy is aContinue Reading
From The Sixth Sense to Split, M. Night Shyamalan has been thriller and surprising audiences. His new film, titled OLD, attempts to send a chill across theaters. Full VIDEO review below. A family of four being torn apart by divorce faces an even greater threat: a mysterious private beachContinue 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
As 2017’s “Wonder Woman” was becoming a massive box office success, it was clear that critics and fans wanted to cheer for DC’s famous heroine and Gal Gadot was confirmed to be a great choice to bring the character to life on the big screen. Fast forward through 2020 andContinue 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
In between Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, the first film release in the “Dollars Trilogy,” is For a Few Dollars More. Like a middle child, it’s seldom mentioned or glorified like the other two, yet is a gem for Clint EastwoodContinue Reading
Among some of the greatest westerns is A Fistful of Dollars, the first film release in the “Dollars Trilogy,” famous for Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. While Clint Eastwood became a superstar when these films arrived in America, fans seems to underestimate the excellence of thisContinue Reading
Over fifty years later, Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is still widely stands as the Best Western Film of All-Time. The 1966 epic which catapulted Clint Eastwood’s fame is also much more than a cowboys-and-Indians film with groundbreaking storytelling techniques which inspired filmmakers for decades. TheContinue Reading
Tombstone may not make the “Best Westerns of All-Time” lists, but the film is certainly entertaining and showcases an amazing portrayal of Doc Holiday by Val Kilmer. Kurt Russell stars as the famous lawman, Wyatt Earp, alongside and all-star cast of Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton as the Earp brothers,Continue Reading
Clint Eastwood’s final western was Unforgiven and still stands atop a resume of great films from the famous actor/director, but also in the genre, earning a Best Picture Oscar and an Oscar for Eastwood as director. Eastwood stars as William Munny, a reformed outlaw, raising hogs and his two childrenContinue Reading
Nearly an hour into the new Hellboy film and audience has learned very little about the evil Blood Queen, played by Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich, so it’s not surprising fans may lose interest. David Harbour (Hopper on Stranger Things) stars titular demon, who kicks off the thrill ride withContinue Reading
Tobe Hooper is no household name, but as the director of Poltergeist, he delivered the Steven Spielberg inspired film in 1982, arriving in theaters the same month as the classic E.T. Centering around the Freeling family and the series of bizarre events, Poltergeist takes audiences through the experience of itemsContinue Reading
