A year ago, the tone of the DC Extended Universe could be summed up as dark, gloomy, and almost humorless. Films like 2013’s Man of Steel and 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had established the superhero film series as the polar opposite of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. After 2017’s heavily flawed Justice LeagueContinue Reading
Sony has released five live-action Spider-Man films since 2002 spanning two different iterations of Peter Parker, with two of the five movies being origin stories. Add to that the recent integration of Spidey/Peter Parker into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War and the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, whichContinue Reading
The year is 2028 and Los Angeles is under siege by rioters protesting the actions of Clearwater, a mega-corporation that now controls the city’s water supply. In the middle of the riots, a pair of brothers, Sherman and Lev (Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry,) try to pull offContinue Reading
Colonel John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) is sent by railroad tycoon Robert Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) to build a bridge near the village of Tsavo in Kenya. Because the project is already behind schedule, Beaumont gives Patterson five months to complete the job. Patterson, a veteran military engineer, is confident heContinue Reading
Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is an American sharpshooter who travels from Wyoming to Australia thinking he’s being hired to control dingoes on rancher Elliot Marston’s property. When he arrives in the port city of Fremantle, he saves a woman named Cora (Laura San Giacomo) from three men who are attemptingContinue Reading
While browsing for movies at Walmart, I came across a curious box cover. The Blu-ray art was very reminiscent of The Dark Knight’s cover art: A masked figure in black leather is looking down at the camera with flames behind him to his left. The back of the box read “From theContinue Reading
In 1891, the survivors of a prison ship wreck, including a medical officer, Lieutenant Claude de Ross (Claudio Cassinelli), and several prisoners, wash up on the shore of an uncharted island in the Caribbean. They are discovered by the island’s self-proclaimed owner, Edmond Rackham (Richard Johnson) and a woman named AmandaContinue Reading