Terminator Genisys
It’s really difficult to keep track of all the “Terminator” revamps since its 1984 debut, launching the career or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Jurassic World
22 years after the groundbreaking original, “Jurassic World” aims to recapture the imagination we felt when Steven Spielberg put life-like dinosaurs on screen for the first time. Director Colin Trevorrow (“Safety Not Guaranteed”) worked very close with Spielberg to get this one right, as “The Lost World” (1997) and “Jurassic Park III” (2001) are regarded
Pitch Perfect 2
2012 seems like forever ago, and in between now and then, Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick has become a global superstar, had a hit single and unfortunately turned her amazing voice into a gimmick. I have grown to admire the tremendous talent that is Kendrick, her dark performance in Cake last year, the gritty indie turn
Furious 7
Back in 2001, when Universal Studios realized fast cars could equate money, The Fast & The Furious was actually about racing. The two stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker were at the center of a film I doubt anyone understood would be going stronger than ever after installment number seven. The series reinvention along the
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and the cast who survived the first film return to India to once again check into the Marigold Hotel. “Why die here when you can die there,” says hotel co-owner Muriel Donnelly played by Oscar winner Maggie Smith (Downton Abby, Harry Potter). It’s Smith’s charm and wit that keeps
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
To quote myself from my review of Hot Tub Time Machine back in 2010, “This is the dumbest script I have ever read, let’s get it made.” Likely what producers or a studio head told Josh Heald when he presented this idea. That rings just as true for the sequel which has abandoned original star
Taken 3
If the unnecessary Taken 2 was lazy, Taken 3 is simply absurd. The asks us to believe that 62-year-old Brian Mills can single handed out run and outsmart the entire LAPD and jump over 15 foot fences among other things. At the end of the film (no spoilers), Mills says “I’ll find you, and we