Only when Ice Cube stepped in for part 2, did this fledgling excuse for a franchise slightly improve. Now that Fast & Furious commodity Vin Diesel (aka this generations Schwarzenegger/Van Damme) is popular again, his mediocre investments are being rebooted. This film in particular and almost everything Diesel is involved with, is pure sensory and […]
Right next to The Huntsman Winters War, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, you will find Blair Witch listed among 2016’s most unnecessary sequels. The original 1999 phenomenon The Blair Witch Project captivated audiences around the globe using handheld footage. This would be the first time a
As Disney films go, Pete’s Dragon, the latest in their crusade to turn all animated films into live action, is exactly what you expect from the family friendly studio. It’s got all the touchy feely moments, all the predictable outcomes, cue the positive music at the end, you know it’s time to exit. Disney (and
The Bourne series which began in 2002 with director Doug Liman instantly became Oscar winner Matt Damon’s most successful acting venture. The 2004 sequel “The Bourne Supremacy” was handed over to director Paul Greengrass (“United 93”, “Captain Phillips”) who revitalized the series. Greengrass returned to finish out the trilogy in “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007), but
After years of trying to get a third Ghostbusters film together, comedy director Paul Feig (The Heat, Spy) bypassed Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, with a greenlight from the studio for an all-female Ghostbusters. The problem with this reboot isn’t the all-female cast, if I had my preference women would have all the leading roles
The brilliance of director David Yates final four Harry Potter films are all lost inside his latest epic Legend of Tarzan. Of course it doesn’t help that audiences/critics might feel over saturated with this tale. We just saw the Disney family version of basically the same story – boy raised in the jungle, becomes friends
In the absence of another “Transformers” sequel (that’s next year), Michael Bay continues to peddle the live action version of the cartoon “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. While the first one in 2014 wasn’t an enormous box office smash, apparently there is still an audience for the films that captivated audiences in the 1990’s before CGI
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Disney is on a quest to bring to life all of their classic animated stories. Last year Cinderella got the live action treatment, now Jon Favreau leaves superheroes behind to direct the classic story of a young boy raised by animals. Of course this isn’t the first attempt, it was given a live action treatment
Action star Jason Statham’s entire career evolved out of The Transporter series which began in 2002. These films never set out to be a sleek like James Bond or even offer intelligence like The Bourne series; Transporter embraces the fact its third rate.
In 2007 I predicted that the success of the Resident Evil series, would lead to more films featuring characters that originated from video games. Hitman: Agent 47 is the latest in what is now a long line of video game based feature films. The Timothy Olyphant version barely broke even, and now eight years later,