The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes The ballad of songbirds and snakes is the most gripping when it stops being about the hunger games. These moments happen in part three of this prequel that’s longer than needed, based on Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel. It is interesting to see an earlier version of […]
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Trolls Band Together DreamWorks’ third animated “Trolls” movie is just as cute as the first two and irresistible in every sense of the word. Parents who are convinced they were dragged to the theater and pray it’s short (it’s well under 90 minutes) and painless will find themselves charmed. In part because it’s meant to
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Every one of Legendary Pictures’ recent English language kaiju epics has been different, and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” keeps that streak going. This is a direct sequel to 2021’s “Godzilla vs. Kong,” itself a loose remake of Toho Studios’ 1962 film “King Kong vs. Godzilla” in which
Megafault The Asylum studios is the only place to see where a devastating destruction of earth’s crust can occur in numerous graphics-intensive hi budget settings but all at quite economical budgets. In Megafault, Brittany Murphy plays Amy Lane, a seismologist with unparalleled expertise, who single-handedly prevents a disaster that could destroy the planet. Due to
Age Of Ice The trailer certainly does not tell the whole story. It was the age of the catastrophe movie genre infecting mass consciousness in the seventies, without a doubt. However, ever since the mid-aughts and well into the next decade and the 2020s, it has been meandering to become a subculture mostly associated with
Kinds of Kindness Yorgos Lanthimos has returned to his provocative ways after the relatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things.” This time, he’s working more in the surreal vein of his earlier films like “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” reteaming with the co-writer of those movies, Efthimis Filippou,
Knox Goes Away In his second time as a director, Michael Keaton stars in the not-so-great “Knox Goes Away” as a thoughtful assassin with an uncommon and fast acting version of dementia. He is so sick that he is given only a few weeks to live once diagnosed. It’s a great idea by screenwriter Gregory
Mega Piranha Everything Mega Piranha does is big butt and lots of blood so it’s not a surprise that the movie opens up with cheesy CGI piranhas out for blood and a half naked woman on the Orinoco River after the credits of the movie. But the piranha of these opening scenes are not Mega
Barbie Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster “Barbie,” is a technical and tonal tour-de-force. It’s an eye popping delight that serves as both a joyful respite and a call to arms. There is so much meticulous attention to detail crammed into the film that it would be impossible to catch it all in one viewing; you’d have
Storm at 500 MPH If one experiment aiming to find an alternative form of natural fuel does not go according to plan, it is accompanied by the appearance of many giant hurricanes over North America. A scientist who was in charge of designing this power station but has distanced himself from this project has to
