Law enforcer Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson) and career criminal Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham), supporting characters in the Fast & Furious franchise, now have their very own spinoff. What was once fast and furious is now long and tedious. If you’ve ever wondered what one of these movies would be like without Vin Diesel and Ludacris, now you know. A slickly … [Read more...] about ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ New Movie Review: More like ‘Long & Tedious’
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THE MEG New Movie Review
There’s a megalodon-sized reason The MEG is a better movie than Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: It’s a Jason Statham versus a giant shark B-movie that knows exactly what it is, has a cheeky sense of humor about itself, and is free of franchise-building expectations (or any high minded expectations). Fallen Kingdom is a joyless, here-we-go-again sequel to a reboot, needed to … [Read more...] about THE MEG New Movie Review
Summer Movie Preview 2018
Let's talk box office. The amount of money a movie makes doesn't always mean the film is good (case in point, the wretched $300 million-grossing Suicide Squad). Summer movies tend to draw more attention to their typically massive opening weekend gross than their quality. On occasion, the movies are as good as the money we invest in them. Other times, we feed sucker money to a … [Read more...] about Summer Movie Preview 2018
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS New Movie Review
I found myself seeing the latest sequel to The Fast and the Furious on Easter Sunday, sitting next to Shea, my high school buddy. Shea loves to remind me that I took him to an early preview screening of the first movie in this series back in 2001. We were both living in Colorado at the time and attended a screening arranged by the studio meant to gauge the film's box office … [Read more...] about THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS New Movie Review