The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman. And that’s honestly about as apt a description as I can muster for this film: It just is. Its predecessor didn’t particularly stoke any conflagrations, either commercially or critically, so walking into this film you might be wondering what warrants a second go-round in this revisionist take on …
2016 is a bad year for movies. Or rather, to be more specific, a bad year for movies that are not currently gripping pop culture in a rabid fever. Big profile blockbuster releases like Deadpool, Batman v Superman, Captain America: Civil War, Suicide Squad, etc. have generated so much hype and buzz around them, that a lot of other movies are just getting lost in the …
Yes? Yes! Leonardo DiCaprio finally took home the gold! It’s about damn time, okay yes I don’t think this was his strongest performance out of the times he’s been nominated, but if it didn’t happen this year it probably wasn’t going to happen at all. And we all wanted so badly for this dream to come true, DiCaprio’s win is …
Snow White and the Huntsman was a somewhat frustrating movie for me. It created a nice fantasy setting which was a lot darker and more appealing than your average Snow White story, but also had cringe-worthy moments in the dialogue and a flimsy performance by its lead, Kristen Stewart. Well the good news is that they are at least ditching one …
Hollywood does a lot of dumb stuff when it comes to movie sequels, but occasionally they get something right. Case in point: Snow White and the Huntsman was a decent enough popcorn blockbuster, with great visual effects, a fantastic villainous turn from a scenery chewing Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth being a badass action hero with an axe, but it …
It’s (almost) all about Halloween this weekend! We have a surprisingly good meta-adaptation of the famously spooky R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps, a disturbing but beautiful horror love story from Guillermo del Toro, a sadly not-so-scary home invasion thriller, a movie about the dark allure of violent gangsters, and one Russian produced and Afrikaans dubbed animated movie about The Snow …
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak has all the ingredients to make one fine movie. Unfortunately, there might just be too many ingredients to make it all work. You will see big creepy, creaking buildings, dark characters, creatively designed ghosts (even if they look poorly CGI’d) and all of this certainly appears to make for a good horror movie just in …
Back in June, the first trailer for director Ridley Scott’s The Martian popped up, delivering a rather solid and condensed punch of info detailing that Matt Damon would need to science the sh** out of Mars in order to survive being stranded on that planet. But that trailer was missing something. And that something, was Jimi Hendrix. Here’s the latest …
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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