Posts Tagged ‘Djimon Hounsou’
Film Review – Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
The phrase “Less is More” simply does not exist in Zack Snyder’s vocabulary. He is a filmmaker obsessed with excess – making every shot of his films big, grand, and operatic. And while the approach does lend to some slick imagery – such as the opening…
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Film Review – Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Zack Snyder is a filmmaker who has always put effort into making big, bold, and splashy imagery. Whether it’s superheroes, Spartans, zombies, or an army of owls, Snyder has routinely leaned toward dark and dramatic visual compositions. That would explain why he so often chooses to…
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Episode 149 – Gran Turismo
For this week’s podcast, we review the sports biopic about a PlayStation gamer-turned-real-racecar-driver, Gran Turismo, starring David Harbour. We also do a fantasy recast of famously miscast film roles throughout the decades. As our streaming homework, we discuss Danny Boyle‘s 2004 family feature, Millions, now…
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Film Review – Shazam! Fury of the Gods
When Shazam! (2019) was released, it felt like a breath of fresh air. After the dark and brooding Batman v Superman (2016) and Suicide Squad (2016), it appeared that Warner Brothers and DC forgot that comic book movies could actually be fun. Shazam! was earnest in its approach – tackling themes of family,…
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Film Review – Shazam!
In the realm of superhero films, DC and Warner Brothers still have a long way to go to catch up to the success that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has established and fortified. But lately, there seems to have been an interesting change of pace coming…
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Film Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Guy Ritchie is a filmmaker of excess. Throughout his career, you can see film after film stock full of slick production and frenetic energy. That trend is amplified to the tenth degree in his latest, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017). Yes, the writer/director…
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Film Review – The Legend of Tarzan
The Legend of Tarzan (2016) makes the grievous error of trying to expand on an origin story while assuming the audience doesn’t know what that origin is. It tries to tell multiple storylines, none very well. David Yates directs Craig Brewer and Adam Cozad’s screenplay…
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Film Review – Furious 7
The Fast & Furious series is one of those rare franchises that have actually improved the further it goes. Fourteen years have passed since the first, and only in the last few years has it really found its stride. A lot of that has to…
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