Posts Tagged ‘Pacific Rim’
Film Review – Atlas
Atlas (2024) is a massive misfire in almost every conceivable fashion. It’s a sci-fi actioner that fails to excite, provoke, or entertain. To say that it underwhelms in nearly all phases of execution would be an understatement. Worst of all, it wastes the talent of Jennifer Lopez.…
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Film Review – Pacific Rim: Uprising
What to say of Pacific Rim: Uprising, the big, dumb sequel to Guillermo del Toro‘s big, dumb robots vs. monsters spectacle of 2013? (I know the original has its defenders and I find his output, in general, worth a watch but ultimately discarded Rim as a feast…
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Film Review – Godzilla (2014)
I’m not ashamed to admit that I liked Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla (1998). Certainly, I’m not going to argue that it was a good film, but I felt that it succeeded on the basic premise it was offering—widespread destruction. Now, on the 60th anniversary of the…
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Film Review – Elysium
There might not have been a bigger breakout into the film world in recent years than that of director Neill Blomkamp. After being denied the opportunity to direct a live action Halo movie (despite the support of Peter Jackson), Blomkamp made his feature debut with…
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Summer Retrospective – Audio Podcast #175
Spencer is joined by Ben Kendrick (Screen Rant) and Craig Koban (Craiger’s Cinema Corner). Segments include: looking back at the summer movie season, cinematic highs and lows, and sharing some pleasant surprises from along the way.
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Film Review – The Wolverine
Okay, let’s get the most pressing question you have out of the way: The Wolverine is better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That’s not a high bar to aim for, but it is the bare minimum one can hope for when going into the latest X-Men…
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Pacific Rim – Audio Podcast #172
Spencer is joined by Ben Kendrick (Screen Rant) and Brandon Jerwa (BJ Shea’s Geek Nation). Segments include: A look at monster movie fandom, revisiting Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla, reviewing Guillermo del Toro‘s Pacific Rim, and the return of ‘Kickstart Me.’
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MacGuffin Audio Podcast #169
Spencer is joined by Nick Ahlers and special guest Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12).
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