The movies that people typically swarm to theaters to see are the ones that sound exciting from their description alone. An eclectic superhero team splitting up and fighting across the…
M. Night Shyamalan has become somewhat of a joke. The writer/director, once renowned for creating masterpieces of tension and twists like “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable”, spent the last decade…
Last year, director/writer Peter Berg made “Deepwater Horizon”, a true-story action thriller that starred Mark Wahlberg saving numerous people from explosions. This year Berg made “Patriots Day”, a true-story action…
Trailers for “A Monster Calls” led me to believe that I was about to watch a standard kids’ movie with a nice visual flair. The ingredients were all there for…
Pete’s Dragon, Disney’s latest live action re-imagining of an animated classic, begins with a scene that had me immediately fearing an onslaught of clichés. Pete is enjoying a drive through…
If Suicide Squad were bad, it’d be the final nail in the DC Extended Universe’s coffin. Man of Steel was mediocre at best. Batman v Superman was a trash fire…
Up until the moment the movie started, I had assumed The Legend of Tarzan was a reimagining of Disney’s 1999 animated classic Tarzan — in the same vein as recent…
The X-Men film series is the longest running superhero movie franchise. Yes, the likes of Superman and Batman have been on the big screen for far more years, but for…
One of my film professors once told me that you can accurately judge the quality of a movie from its opening scenes. I don’t believe that this is always true,…
These days, only two things are certain in life: death and superhero movies. Especially since Marvel kicked off the perpetual moneymaking machine of a cinematic comic book universe, it seems…
Hardcore Henry opens with a violent series of close-ups dominating the screen. A pistol fires into a torso, a knife tears through a neck — but it’s not until a…
Highest Grossing Movies – Going to the theater is an adventure; you get to watch a new film and escape into the story, if only for a short amount of…
