Last month we heard the news that the next in Disney’s slew of live-action remakes is going to be The Lion King, with Jon Favreau at the helm. It looks like every single on of our childhood favorites is going to be revamped at some stage or another! With Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Maleficent and The […]
Despite the stereotype that the Western genre is basically dead, occasionally being revived by big number directors like Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the truth is the genre is still popular in the indie circles. One of them is The Keeping Room, which originally premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, but it took […]
Marvel’s Doctor Strange, co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson, is formulaic to a fault, but still brings enough flavor, variety and most of all, fun to make the familiar Marvel song-and-dance feel fresh and exciting again. Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), one of the world’s best neurosurgeons, is left with irreparable nerve damage in his […]
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, directed by Edward Zwick, is a formulaic action thriller that hits the sweet spot of never being truly boring or particularly exciting, just competent and forgettable. Retired Military Police Major Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) goes on the run with Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders) who has been wrongfully accused of […]
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John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13 is a 1976 cult classic action thriller that yields truly spectacular results from its low budget roots, even if at times those limitations hold it back. Lt. Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker) is put in charge of a soon-to-be-defunct police precinct for the night. He and handful of others, including […]
Arrival Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario) is about a team of experts, lead by linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) who are sent to investigate the landings of mysterious spaceships across the globe. It’s interesting to watch trailers for movies after seeing the movie in question (Arrival was shown at the BFI London Film […]
