Following the events of Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro's charmless, bloated 2013 film, the world has been rid of the gigantic Kaiju monsters and the massive Jaeger robots are no longer needed. At least, that's how it is for a few minutes of Pacific Rim: Uprising, in which John Boyega stars as the son of Idris Elba's character from the original. Boyega's Jake Pentecost leads a … [Read more...] about PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING New Movie Review
Scott Eastwood
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
SNOWDEN New Movie Review
It's great to see Oliver Stone with a fire in his belly again. His previous film, Savages, a violent crime drama about California pot dealers, played like a laugh-free Pineapple Express and is easily Stone's weakest. On the other hand, Snowden is a return to form, as it downplays Stone's tendency for excess and provides a solid, complex portrayal of its polarizing central … [Read more...] about SNOWDEN New Movie Review