I hate when a film refuses to kill their darlings especially for the sake of a sequel. Jurassic World: the Fallen Kingdom and Ocean’s 8 are two films from the summer of 2018 brought to us by the revival of film franchises long past their heyday. Deadpool had a quiet haul, Hotel Transylvania fulfills the family movie quota, and Ant-man …
Boring Waves Drown Ocean’s 8
With a cast of eight actresses and the potential to breath new life into this forgotten franchise, Ocean’s 8 failed to create a better version of the original film by sticking to the Soderbergh heist movie formula. I hate to say it’s all about the Benjamins, but it is all about the benjamins. Adapting preexisting franchises is less risky than …
Redundant Nostalgia – Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
Remakes and Franchises make movie watching boring these days. Same ol’ this and with a sprinkle of that thing already imagined. Jurassic World and Ocean’s 8 are two examples of films this summer that failed to deviate from the original plot and character development. The final product that hit all the marks of fanfare but lacked originality. Franchises, every studio …
Upgrade – TWB Reviews
A nod to film: A nod to The Matrix. A nod to Blade Runner. A nod to Death Wish. Upgrade is an adequate addition to the genre of revenge movies.
VietKong
Instead of a monster movie about Kong, this remake of the quintessential creature feature focuses on one general’s vendetta against a war he may or may not have lost. The scrutiny he and his company (really, it’s all Sam) face as soldiers returning home from the Vietnam War is all too much to bear, so Packard enlisted his company upon …
Monster Movie Madness – A Colossal Takeaway
Whether it’s a 75ft monster or a hundred pound girl, the monster is what makes the creature feature a great adventure into the surrealism of imaginative filmmaking.
Logan Lucky and This Side of The Soderbergh Come Up
Soderbergh is good at keeping us entertained us by Plan A, so that execution of Plan B comes as a complete turnaround we as the audience didn’t see that coming.
IT and 80’s Nostalgia
IT works well as just a movie. Even if I had not read the book I would enjoy this film. Why, because it does something that many films fail to do these days: make me feel something. While watching IT, I felt a longing for the moments of childhood when we would ride bicycles and find adventure. There were no …
Gene of A Thousand Faces
The Emoji movie is just Wreck It Ralph, Inside Out, and the Bee Movie all rolled up into a nonsensical tale of blah.
Don’t Go Throwing Stones At Glass Castles
The Glass Castle is a film account of fragmented moments within a life full of interesting people, places, and experiences that only reading the manuscript or speaking with the author will unveil.