The first Independence Day movie back in 1996 pretty much set a new bar for the epic disaster film while mixing it in with sci-fi. Director Roland Emmerich and Producer Dean Devlin not only created a genre (or at least expanded upon it) but more or less dug a film well that they would dip…
DetailsIf you prefer Wagner to Mozart, dark chocolate to milk, or even Lennon to McCartney, you may prefer Duncan Jones’ epic fantasy Warcraft to anything coming out involving people who can fly, mutate, avenge or be super. I certainly did. It’s an astonishingly designed vision of an alternate universe that is brutal and savage and yet often…
DetailsGreat googly-moogly! It’s another week already?! Get ready for more scintillating, tidbits of information that are sure to astound and vex! Prepare for the sound of crying and gnashing of teeth (or perhaps less of that) from self-proclaimed romantics everywhere: Nicholas Sparks Productions shuts down! That’s right, the romantic novelist’s four-year-old film and television company…
DetailsHorror movies have been in a bad, albeit relatively profitable, rut for the past forty years. Ever since The Omen (1976), Halloween (1978), but especially Friday the 13th (1980) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), the focus has shifted from victim to killer, and from triumphant heroism to elaborate certain death. Since then, virtually…
DetailsPixar, and DreamWorks Animation, had been preparing me for Finding Dory for years. It’s no secret that DreamWorks Animation was built by Jeffrey Katzenberg – the Disney man who had wanted, but was denied, the mouse house cartoon boss post — to snipe at Disney at every opportunity. When these flicks can take up to…
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