Posts Tagged ‘Paramount Pictures’
Film Review – Ghost in the Shell (2017)
There was controversy surrounding the announcement of the new Ghost In the Shell (2017). Adapted from the 1995 Japanese anime (which was in turn adapted from the Japanese manga), the controversy involved the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the central role of the robotic cyborg,…
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Film Review – Rings
Rings (2017) is a special kind of awful. It’s not scary, or thrilling, or suspenseful, or remotely interesting. It’s a complete drag of a movie. Maybe the premise of this story wasn’t made for this generation. The Ring (2002) – or better yet, the original…
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Film Review – xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
Because apparently the world was lacking in secret agents that do three-sixty tail-slides off foreign ambassador’s convoy tail-pipes, we now have a new xXx movie, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. In case you don’t remember seven years ago (2005) there was a movie in…
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Film Review – Monster Trucks
Here is yet another opportunity for us to discuss how movies that barely register a reaction are usually the hardest to review. Monster Trucks (2016) is such a forgettable experience that it’s a struggle for me to write a full-length article on it. I’m clearly…
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Film Review – Silence
In a way, Martin Scorsese’s entire career has been leading up to Silence (2016). Not only has he been trying to adapt Shûsaku Endô’s novel for decades, but this is the most direct examination of the themes that Scorsese has returned to again and again.…
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Film Review – Fences (Second Take)
There are films where the mastery of craft reveals itself subtly. Other times, the brilliance kicks the door down and makes its presence known loud and clear. Fences (2016) contains such powerful acting that we recognize it moments into the story. Denzel Washington directs August…
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Film Review – Fences
Fences is a film adaptation of a play by renowned playwright August Wilson. He also wrote the screenplay, even though he died in 2005. The play originally debuted in 1983, but it took a former star of the play to bring the film version to…
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Film Review – Allied
Here is yet another instance where trailers and advertisements promise one film and what we get is something else. We’re lead to believe that Robert Zemeckis’ Allied (2016) is a taut thriller about betrayals and lies. What we actually get is a sweeping love story…
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