Posts Tagged ‘Universal Pictures’
Film Review – Halloween (2018)
Director David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) is the best follow-up entry in the long running series featuring the masked killer known as Michael Myers. It has a great admiration for John Carpenter’s classic original, while doing just enough to stand on its own legs. The…
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Film Review – First Man
Mankind has accomplished some incredible things in the short time we’ve been on Earth. In First Man (2018), director Damien Chazelle and writer Josh Singer (adapting the book by James R. Hansen) recount the events that lead to Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to…
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Film Review – Night School
Night School (2018) is the kind of comedy that just keeps getting in its own way. The set up alone can make for some funny situations. A guy – trying to make a better life for himself and his fiancé – decides to go to…
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Film Review – The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The title of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) could also work as its central premise. It definitely features a house, a house that most certainly has a clock in its walls. You can’t get more straightforward than that. Written by Erick…
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An Appreciation – Jaws
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat” Here is the moment that would forever change how movies are made, marketed, and watched. It’s hard to fathom – all these decades later – how much of an impact Jaws (1975) would have in popular culture. With its…
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Film Review – Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
I’ll start off this review with something positive. Walking out of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) – the aptly titled sequel to the musical Mamma Mia! (2008) – I saw plenty of people with smiles on their faces. They had a bounce to…
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Film Review – Unfriended: Dark Web
When the opportunity arose to watch and review the sequel to Unfriended, a minor 2014 cult hit I’d never seen, I jumped at it for a couple of reasons. One, a dear friend is an unapologetic sucker for teen thrillers and I’m always looking to…
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Film Review – Skyscraper
Duct tape plays a prominent role throughout Skyscraper (2018). When Dwayne Johnson’s character suffers a brutal gash from shrapnel, he closes the wound off by wrapping it in tape. When he has to scale the side of a three thousand foot tall building, he wraps…
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