Nolan’s new time-travel (but not) thriller is style over substance, but impossible to repel:
There’s a ballfield of opinions on director Christopher Nolan, one of the most honored working today and especially for his unapologetic ambitions and unconventional storytelling: Those that think everything up to Inception is the end of the line in terms of quality, those that believe everything up to The Dark Knight Rises is it, those that love everything he does regardless of how good it is,…
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Having been a lifelong fan of certain superheroes from DC and Marvel, my history started with various Batman related cartoons and Tim Burton's 1989 film, which was responsible for catapulting the caped crusader into the mainstream on his 50th anniversary. Sadly though Burton's films and some of the recent DCEU ventures have left me cold over time, especially with the endless controversies, etc. Certain films have not though, including two that I have defended to the tooth- The Dark Knight…
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I was originally hesitant to view director David Finchers' "Alien 3" due to varying opinions, a rotten consensus on film critic website Rotten Tomatoes and it being common knowledge the deaths of Hicks and Newt, beloved supporting characters from its' predecessor "Aliens". Having recently watched "Aliens", I sat down and decided to give this threequel a chance.
The first five to ten minutes are haunting and are assisted by a score from Elliot Goldenthal, though this sequence is contrived by…
In some ways; "Sonic the Hedgehog" aka "ADHD the movie", appears to be one of those standard family films that would've came out in the 2000's; except that now in 2020 it has better production values and a bright, harmless script to save from what could've been a disasterous video game adaptation.
Ben Schwartz excellently lends his voice to the loveable Sega console icon Sonic. Joining him is everyman actor James Marsden, in a fun spot as the speed trap…
