It’s ironic that the final season of Game of Thrones airs as Avengers: Endgame hit theaters. In the Marvel universe, a twelve-year process is coming to a close (albeit with spinoffs and various other entries to be delivered via the likes of Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel). In slightly less time (eight years), HBO’s…
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The latest (thirty-fourth) film in the DC Universe (animated, anyway) series, Justice League vs. The Fatal Five, finds Star-Boy of the Legion of Superheroes traveling back in time after a three supervillains steal a time machine. In the present, Star-Boy is unaware of who he is, while those three members of the Fatal Five, Persuader,…
The Kid Who Would Be King serves up a family-friendly version of Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur with a twenty-first century twist, from director/writer Joe Cornish (Attack the Block, Adventures of Tin-Tin: Secret of the Unicorn, Ant-Man). With a splash of Sir Patrick Stewart, and the wickedly vengeful Rebecca Ferguson as Morgana, the film has enough…
Finally, a?Transformers?film that I wanted to rewatch for myself, and to show to my sons. With?Bumblebee, out of the heavy-handed, robot-smacking control of Michael Bay [seriously,?Bad Boys, The Rock, etc. are awesome, but his?Transformers?films not so much], Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) takes our favorite yellow robot and makes him… amazing. While the…
Two cops, Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn’s Brett Ridgeman and Anthony Lurasetti, have crossed so many lines that they’re put on leave pending investigation. Needing funds fast, they trail a crew of heavily armed thieves, including recently paroled petty thief Slim (Tory Kittles). S. Craig Zahler’s approach is slow-burning, with plenty of crime violence for…
How do you build on a classic? That was the charge given to screenwriter David Magee (Finding Neverland, Life of Pi) and director Rob Marshall (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods,?upcoming?The Little Mermaid). Set twenty-five years after the Julie Christie and Dick Van Dyke original, the film finds Poppins returning to…
Director Peter Segal had been quiet for the five years after a series of Adam Sandler hits (50 First Dates, Anger Management)?and the boxing dud?Grudge Match. Now, he’s resurfaced with the Jennifer Lopez-led?Second Act?and?The Pacifier/Spy Next Door-like Dave Bautista film,?My Spy, due this year.??With Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Dan Bucatinsky, Milo Ventimiglia, and Treat…
Michael Cimino, of?The Deer Hunter?fame and?Heaven’s Gate?notoriety, shoots the gap between his Oscar wins for the first and the derision of his work for the second in Mickey Rourke’s?The Year of the Dragon. While Rourke had collaborations with Steven Spielberg (1941), Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat), Barry Levinson (Diner), and Francis Ford Coppola (Rumble Fish) under…
Before?SWAT, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, Lethal Weapon,?and?Magnum P.I.?were remade as television dramas, studios seemed fascinated with remaking old television shows into slightly more offbeat films. In between films like I, Spy,?and later films like?The A-Team?and?21 Jump Street,?Starsky & Hutch?took the old 1970s buddy cop show and twisted it, hard. Thanks to Warner Archive Collection, the Blu-ray…
