Trying to cram Stephen King's massive tome It into one movie was always going to be an impossible task. The decision back in 2014, when the It project was still a Cary Fukunaga project and not an Andi Muschietti joint, to split the movies by timeline certainly was controversial as King's weaving between the past and present lent the …
At some point in every kid's life they have probably spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming about what it would be like to be a superhero. Shazam!, the latest in DC Comic's cinematic universe, is the first of the genre to directly tap into that childhood wish fulfillment as it reimagines Big as a superhero movie, thus …
In our cinematic age of uber-franchises dominating theatres across the globe, no two franchises have suffered as much ridicule and fan-rage as the Transformers movie series and the DC Comics Extended Universe (DCEU). The Transformers franchise – based on a 1980s cartoon that was blatantly an extended toy commercial – found its reputation ground into …
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It's time for me to confess something: For the last few months whenever I just need to zone out I've found myself lulled into the genteel murder mysteries of Midsomer Murders, of which every episode is currently on Netflix. After two dozen episodes (each about 100 minutes long) I've got the formula down pat: there …
Continue reading Big Screen Double-Feature: Searching & The Little Stranger
During the infancy of the superhero genre when Hollywood time and time again demonstrated that they did not have a clue about how to bring comic-books to the big screen I was able to take solace in one thing: at least these weren't based on video games. From the days of Super Mario Bros. all the …
Continue reading Video Game Movie Round-Up: Tomb Raider & Rampage
So as I stated last week, I'm in mass catch-up mode before I put out my first edition of the Best of 2018 list (Part 1 here). So here's this weeks round-up: THE DEATH OF STALIN dir. Armando Iannucci From The Thick of It to In The Loop to his current HBO series Veep, Armando Iannucci has perfected the …
It seems only a few weeks ago that I was putting together my final list of the Best Films of 2017 (to be fair, that list did finally come out in April so it wasn't that long ago). But with us firmly entrenched in the month of August it's time for me to begin thinking of evaluating …
As I have established before in the previous volume, my usually high standards for what movies I will and won't buy flies out the window the moment I sniff out a good bargain. Basically, once the price of buying a movie costs less than a VOD rental (as of writing, about CAD 5.99) all bets …
As I was about to step out the door to go catch my first double feature since child #2 came along, my wife scoffed at my film choices since she has heard me mock both of the titles repeatedly for various reasons. She asked, "Are you so desperate to get your solo-movie fix that you're going …
Continue reading Big Screen Double Feature: Ocean’s 8 & Deadpool 2
The title of this post explains itself right? Let's dive in: PADDINGTON 2 (dir. Paul King) "If you're kind and polite, the world will turn out right." This is the motto that Paddington Brown lives by (taught to him by his Aunt Lucy of course) and it is also the ethos that drives this entire …
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