Apparently Hollywood was overrun by demands that someone remake The Magnificent Seven. I’m not 100% sure who these people were or if they even exist, but I am certain that it was an odd choice to remake a movie that was already a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. However, I’m not consulted about […]

Over the past decade, UK based-developer Traveller’s Tales (a.k.a. Tt Games a.k.a. “The LEGO Game” company) has been well known for and wildly successful at translating several iconic intellectual properties into smash-hit LEGO Universe franchises, with Star Wars, The Hobbit, Marvel Universe and DC Universe among them. But TT Game’s most recent game, LEGO Jurassic […]

Not many movies get to have a sequel a full 22 years after the release of the original, but such is the appeal of Jurassic Park. Times may change, but children will always love watching dinosaurs rip humans and theme parks into smithereens. This 4quel has been in the works for what feels like forever. […]

Given Marvel’s track record, if there was a serious question about the new Netflix Daredevil series it was whether or not “grim and gritty” would work in the established Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).  It does.  This is an MCU with dirt under its nails and a bottle of booze hidden in a desk drawer behind […]

Liam Neeson has been slaughtering bad guys who mess with his family on the big screen for so long now that it’s almost hard to remember that he used to be a gentle giant character actor who once played Oskar Schindler. Somehow there’s still a little novelty left in that stunt casting, even though the […]

Sinister is not a great horror movie, however it is at least a competent one.