Nearly 45 years after John Carpenter’s original, Halloween Ends, the final chapter in the Michael Myers saga makes its way to theaters and Peacock this weekend. Director David Gordon Green’s (“Stronger,” “Halloween“) trilogy has been brilliant at bringing characters from the original film and initial sequels into the forefront. Still, it has fallen short in creating […]
The “Jurassic World” franchise has been on a steady decline since revitalizing the franchise in 2015. Nothing was ever going to recapture the magic of the original from 1993, which now seems like a modest, less-is-more film, compared with the five subsequent sequels. Colin Trevorrow (“Jurassic World”) returns to finish the series, which must end,
The opening credits and music are identical to the 1986 film by Tony Scott. If you take nostalgia out of the equation, the original film had some of the worst acting, editing and cinematography around. Looking back at the Navy propaganda flick feels more like watching a video game than a feature film. Thirty-six years,
<p>A new era, with mostly the right amount of sentimentality, joy, pain—and surprises. The Crawley family is in a quandary about permitting a film crew to shoot a movie in their home (it’s still in the silent era), and of course—since they need money to fix the roof, they will agree. But not without the vociferous protest
The casual superhero movie viewer might not remember the events of the original “Doctor Strange,” and not everyone will have seen the limited series “Wanda Vision,” and that’s ok. Versatile director Sam Raimi brings his specific set of skills to this sequel that takes the viewer on a gothic horror movie journey. The production design
Director David Yates and screenwriter J.K. Rowling can’t conjure enough secrets to keep their fledgling Harry Potter spinoff interesting. A continuation from the previous two films, with even more Hogwarts and Dumbledore this time around, “The Secrets of Dumbledore” is a long-winded slog. Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander, the charming focal point of the first film,
This is an Ice Age adventure in the usual Disney vein. Typically, in the franchise’s tradition, some current universal issue is addressed (e.g., climate change, its threats and others’ to animals and to earth), along with changes in relationships within small groups, like a family or a herd, facing a major threat. This one focuses on children ready to
Arguably another remake, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” marks the third solo film for Tom Holland and the franchise’s most complex plot to date. Ironically, the most simplistic new release this week is the one film that focuses on the future instead of the past. For years, this critic has delivered harsh criticism toward Marvel and
Oscar nominated writer/director Jason Reitman (“Juno”, “Up in the Air”) takes over for his father Ivan Reitman, with a new script that beautifully bridges the first two films with “Ghostbusters Afterlife”. Thirty-Seven years after the original “Ghostbusters” raked up over $230 million dollars, spawned an 80’s and 90’s mass toy collection, Reitman has cracked the
It takes a creative, fanciful mind to dream up a story about such a motley group of characters (all prisoners) charged by the U.S. Government with dismantling a Nazi-like prison and laboratory in a foreign country, Corto Maltese. Although The Suicide Squad does have drama, it’s also very funny. Amanda Waller as director of the Suicide squad and researcher