It: Chapter Two Review – Whatever Floats Your Boat
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling.
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling.
The X-Men series has felt like a bit of a misfire from the very start. Even by the convoluted standards of comic book fare, the ensemble pieces never quite managed to thread the needle between world-building and giving each member...
After writing a few good screenplays that were tamed by a few good directors (‘The Social Network’, ‘Steve Jobs’, ‘A Few Good Men’, etc.) Aaron Sorkin has finally gone ahead and directed a movie...
Aaron Sorkin finally directed one of his screenplays and the results are pretty much what you’d expect. That snappy, Sorkiny dialogue explodes out of characters’ mouths at a fever pitch. Rat-a-tat snark and smarm slowl...
Great story. Mediocre movie. It’s depressingly common. ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ is the latest example of the phenomenon, but it will be far from the last.
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The best Blu-rays are free Blu-rays. Last week, we promised to give one of our readers a copy of Guilermo del Toro’s Gothic spook-show ‘Crimson Peak’. Let’s find out who won, shall we?
We’re still tabulating the results of last week’s ‘Spectre’ contest. In the meantime, let’s get another one rolling. We’ve dug up a spare Blu-ray copy of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic horror...
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