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IT has all the makings of a great horror movie. And that’s because it doesn’t neglect focusing on being a good movie first.
Jared is a cantankerous designer looking for love in all the wrong places and living vicariously through television. Sometimes he makes things.
Dark Tower, beige film
The Dark Tower is not the disaster international critics would have you believe, but unfortunately it does occupy a rather grey area.
Jared is a cantankerous designer looking for love in all the wrong places and living vicariously through television. Sometimes he makes things.
I hit the road and I’m gone: Baby Driver
Some of my favourite songs have a bittersweet quality. They’re often lyrically dramatic, but juxtaposed with energetic, upbeat music. And some of my favourite movies have soundtracks chock-full of great songs. Baby Driver, the newest film by writer-director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs the World), is named after a pretty cool folk-rock song by Simon and Garfunkel. Despite not being a direct adaptation, you’re still gonna want to fasten your seatbelts, hit the road, and listen to the roar of Baby Driver‘s engines.
Floris sometimes writes things when he’s not watching movies or playing video games or editing videos or folk-rock singing/songwriting.
Valerian: Star Wars should start sleeping with one eye open
Director/screenwriter Luc Besson excels at creating these vast, quirky, juxtaposed worlds which showcase the wonder of his expansive imagination whilst never forcing us to entirely abandon the familiar. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets certainly has that homely charm wrapped-in-the-spectacular vibe.
Jared is a cantankerous designer looking for love in all the wrong places and living vicariously through television. Sometimes he makes things.
The title is a pun – a review of Spiderman: Homecoming
15 Years, 5 movies and 2 spidermen in, we arrive at Spiderman: Homecoming which manages to shake off the franchise fatigue and deliver a great, surprisingly fun and funny film.
Jared is a cantankerous designer looking for love in all the wrong places and living vicariously through television. Sometimes he makes things.
Does Transformers: The Last Knight stand up to the hype? Who knows.
After Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I vowed to never watch a Transformers movie again.
Floris sometimes writes things when he’s not watching movies or playing video games or editing videos or folk-rock singing/songwriting.
Pussy Whipped: The Cortina Whiplash new album We Do review
Cortina Whiplash’s latest album, We Do, is a melodic rollercoaster of fast, hard, and smooth alternative rock. Their message is clean and keeps the punk middle-finger raised high in the face of institutional marriage, as well as taking a look at the overwhelming amount of money and time we spend on shit that doesn’t really matter.
Jeanne hates to refer to herself in third person. Because before you know it, she gets lordly and demand you tell her fantastic stories fit for the delicate ears of kings and queens only.
A kids’ movie about retirement: Cars 3
In my opinion, Cars 2 was one of Pixar Animation Studios’ biggest letdowns. They were on a roll (no pun intended) with some amazing, groundbreaking films, and Cars 2 interrupted the flow with an ultimately forgettable film. The sequel didn’t perform well critically or financially, but I guess there was enough potential for the studio to continue the series of kid’s films – this time (perhaps self-referentially), about getting old and retiring.
Floris sometimes writes things when he’s not watching movies or playing video games or editing videos or folk-rock singing/songwriting.
Tom Cruise ignites a new franchise with The Mummy
The new big thing in Hollywood is “shared universes” – multiple movies that take place in the same world, thus informing or impacting each other. It started with the Marvel Comics films (everything from 2008’s Iron Man), but also including the DC comics films that follow on Man of Steel, the new Star Wars films that include sequels and spin-offs, and the X-men films (having spun off to include Deadpool and Wolverine movies). And now Universal Studios is also having their turn: A “Dark Universe” franchise, starting with the Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy.
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