The U.S. film market has had a longstanding tradition of taking foreign movies and translating them into English-speaking Hollywood remakes (The Upside, The Grudge, Cold Pursuit, Miss Bala) and the results have NOT been good! Why is it done? One word. Money! * Hitting most of the marks from its Swedish predecessor, we meet the…
This is the movie where the power of trolling really paid off. After their disastrous trailer dropped in 2019, Paramount & Marza Animation Planet scrambled to redesign the hero, Sonic the hedgehog, after a tsunami of hate was unleashed on the poor little blue guy. Are his new CGI features better? Will that matter? *…
After doing Harley Quinn in 2016’s Suicide Squad and her voice-over work in video games, Margot Robbie is on a roll. She’s gonna reprise Harley again in the future with Gotham City Sirens, Suicide Squad 2, and more. Something tells me that she’s really enjoying playing this character! * Narrating this story and occasionally breaking…
Personally, I’m getting a little tired of all the cookie-cutter, boring, female-driven revenge/action films that are being churned out these days (Peppermint, Proud Mary, Red Sparrow, etc.) Welp, here’s another cookie-cutter script you can add to that growing list. *sigh*. * Just like Le Femme Nikita, but with gender-bending American Assassin overtones, we get the…
No one makes a gangster movie quite like Guy Ritchie. From his Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels to RocknRolla, his unique style and camerawork, plus his utterly flamboyant scripts are legendary. Sure he’s made films like the recent Disney remake of Aladdin and his narcissistic Swept Away, but this is his true calling. *…
Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do? Well, here’s the third film in the franchise that nobody thought would ever happen, since Will Smith normally doesn’t do sequels and Martin Lawrence has had some health issues. Plus, super producer/director Michael Bay stepped away from the project this time around. * It’s been 17 years since…
*Sigh* Do I have to say it again? Here’s ANOTHER remake because there are no new stories to tell in Hollywood anymore. But this isn’t a remake/reboot of those Dr. Dolittle films that starred Eddie Murphy, it’s a sorta-kinda remake of the original 1967 musical, but without the music, fun, or intelligence. * With a…
