We’ve seen Micheal Bay’s Transformers saga. It was beautiful, visually stunning, and also an ambitious story that trickles away as it goes on. There was always one character that stood out the entire series, Bumblebee. The first thing I thought about when the film was announced was a soft reboot. Which is pretty much what
We all know the story of the Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book. How the Man-Cub brought peace to the jungle. We’ve seen Disney’s iterations of the story. The original 1967 (also Jungle Book 2 released in 2003) version of the story that inspired Disney’s beautiful live-action film that released in 2016 directed by Jon Favreau, and
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse wasn’t one of my most anticipated movies of the year. Since the start of 2018, the then Untitled Miles Morales Spider-Man animated movie was sort of just there in the background, not really a film I was keeping tabs on. Especially with another Star Wars story on the way and the
After reinvigorating a franchise thought dead with a knockout seventh installment in 2015’s CREED, directed by Ryan Coogler, expectations were high for a sequel once it was announced. However, being too busy with directing duties for the cultural phenomenon that is Black Panther, Coogler had to step down from directing duties and find a new
Wreck-It Ralph represents a rare breed among the films released by Walt Disney Animation Studios in the past ten years. Not only is it an original property, but it also left itself open for another installment to the point that it barely scratched the surface of its own video game universe. In fact, this extends
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is, once again, not all that fantastic.
Blasting its way into theaters during a slow movie season, the neo-Western brilliance of Hell or High Water took audiences by storm, leaving many wondering what the next film from director David McKenzie would bring. The answer is Outlaw King, a historical epic set in 1300s Scotland. As ambitious a project for distributor Netflix as it is a
The magic of Queen was their uniqueness. That ability to consistently produce songs and perform in a way that blew away everyone’s expectations and left us wanting more. Bohemian Rhapsody had moments where the film truly embodied Queen and their mercurial front man, but those moments were too rare to make this film anything more
With horror movies being festive viewing in October the same way end-of-year holiday movies are festive viewing in December, it is no surprise that one of the most iconic horror franchises bears the name of the holiday in which it takes place: Halloween. The Halloween franchise has become a major part of what most people
After gaining popularity and critical acclaim for his previous two works, La La Land and Whiplash, Director Damien Chazelle has a lot to live up to in terms of a follow up to his previous film which garnered 12 Academy Award nominations and 6 wins, with one of the awards going to Chazelle himself for Best Director. Enter the
