***SPOILERS*** I recently rented Everything Everywhere All At Once knowing I’d want to see it. While I would be familiar with Michelle Yeoh’s role in Tomorrow Never Dies, I’m most recently familiar with her role as Philippa Georgiou/Mirror Universe Empress Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of … Continue reading
Featuring Malin Åkerman (The Skulls), Billy Crudup (Princess Mononoke), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural), Dan Payne (Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Supernatural, Underworld: Awakening), Niall Matter (Stargate: Atlantis), Apollonia Vanova (Stargate: Atlantis, Man of Steel), Stephen McHattie (The X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise), Matt Frewer (Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Home at the End of the World, Batman: … Continue reading
Featuring Andrew J. Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager), Clare Higgins (Doctor Who‘s The Night of the Doctor, The Magician’s Apprentice, and Hell Bent), Hellraiser remains one of my favorite horror films of all time. According to the Mental Floss article, “12 Sharp Facts About Hellraiser“: Thirty years ago, on September 18, 1987, … Continue reading
Continuing from Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and Resident Evil: Retribution is Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. The film features Eoin Macken (Merlin), and Ruby Rose (Arrowverse Elseworlds Crossover). Like the previous films, there are the subsequent tie-ins: Alice heads back to Raccoon City, entering another Umbrella Facility (Resident Evil, Extinction, Retribution) through a … Continue reading
Featuring Tommy Lee Jones’ film debut (Batman Forever, Volcano, Men in Black film series, Captain America: The First Avenger), Love Story is a film I could see my parents enjoying when they were younger, due to the Romeo & Juliet–West Side Story–Tristan + Isolde fatal and prohibitive romance between them, mirroring both families dislike of my parents getting together. However, … Continue reading
Featuring Jaime Lee Curtis (Blue Steel), and Donald Sutherland (Commander-in-Chief), Virus is a SciFi horror film in which a ship beset by a malevolent extraterrestrial entity that seeks to turn humanity into cyborg slaves. I actually quite liked the film. According to the Bloody Disgusting article, “In Defense of ‘Virus’: Reflecting Back 20 Years Later“: A big budget action … Continue reading
Featuring Keanu Reeves (The Matrix film series, Point Break, Speed, My Own Private Idaho, The Devil’s Advocate, Constantine, The Day the Earth Stood Still, River’s Edge), Dolph Lundgren (Masters of the Universe, Universal Soldier), Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers, Star Trek: Nemesis), and Udo Kier (Blade), Johnny Mnemonic is a cyberpunk action thriller film based on the on the story of the same name by William Gibson. The dystopian view of … Continue reading
Featuring Keanu Reeves (The Matrix film series, Point Break, Speed, My Own Private Idaho, The Devil’s Advocate, Constantine, The Day the Earth Stood Still), and Dennis Hopper (Speed, Super Mario Bros.), River’s Edge is both very dark, and very polarizing, mainly because the monsters in the film are simply too real. I should also point out the damn hot Keanu Reeves in the film. According to … Continue reading
Continuing from Grease is Grease 2, featuring Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns, What Lies Beneath, Hairspray, Stardust), and Christopher McDonald (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Faculty, Stargate Universe). I have more affinity to Grease, often wondering why they were singing about bowling and a luau, but shall not truly decide between the two: Grease and Grease … Continue reading
Featuring James Franco (Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film series, Oz the Great and Powerful), Sophia Myles (Doctor Who‘s The Girl In The Fireplace), Rufus Sewell (Dark City), Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Thomas Sangster (Doctor Who‘s Human Nature and The Family of Blood) and Mark Strong (Stardust, Sherlock Holmes), Tristan + … Continue reading
Continuing from Farscape, Follow That Bird, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and The Muppet Christmas Carol is A Muppet Family Christmas, a 1987 TV special which features various Muppets from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and Muppet Babies. Jim Henson (Labryinth) even makes cameo. According to The A.V. Club reivew: There’s something novel about how many of our beloved Christmas … Continue reading
Besides other films like Robin Hood, The Last Unicorn, An American Tail, FernGully: The Last Rainforest,*batteries not included, and Aladdin, was The Brave Little Toaster, which was back when films didn’t try to feed kids the happy side of life – and not things that when kids grow up would encounter in real life. The film features Mindy Stern (Austin … Continue reading
Continuing from The Wizard of Oz is Oz the Great and Powerful, a prequel film. The film features James Franco (Raimi’s Spider-Man film series), Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain), Rachel Weisz (The Mummy film series, Constantine, The Bourne Legacy), and Bruce Campbell (Xena: Warrior Princess, Charmed, Army of Darkness), and is also directed by Sam Raimi. I … Continue reading
Featuring Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, The Ninth Gate, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Charlize Theron (The Devil’s Advocate, Æon Flux, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Snow White and the Huntsman), Gary Grubbs (Angel, Will & Grace), Clea DuVall (But … Continue reading
Very few do not know the wonder and mischief in The Wizard of Oz, so although I am covering it now, I have known it practically forever! According to the Psychology Today article, “Why ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is the most popular film of all time“: According to the Library of Congress, The Wizard of Oz (from … Continue reading
Featuring Ed Begley Jr. (Star Trek: Voyager, Batman Forever, She-Devil), Charles Dance (Bleak House, Merlin, Underworld: Awakening), and Chris Hemsworth (Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Snow White and the Huntsman), Ghostbusters: Answer The Call is a film based on the original Ghostbusters film featuring an all-female cast of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. … Continue reading
Featuring Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady, The Hours, Death Becomes Her, Doubt, The Devil Wears Prada), Ed Begley Jr. (Star Trek: Voyager, Batman Forever), and Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), She-Devil is a dark comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), based upon the 1983 novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by British writer Fay … Continue reading
Featuring Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sister Act film series, Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The View), Harris Yulin (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Mark Pellegrino (Supernatural), Cheech Marin (The Golden Palace), and Brad Dourif (Child’s Play, Star Trek: Voyager, Alien: Ressurection), Fatal Beauty is an OK film about Detective Rita Rizzoli who has … Continue reading
Related to Batman: The Animated Series, and preceding Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is considered the “best big-screen iteration of Batman.” The animated feature does include great storytelling devices, as according to ReelRundown‘s review: Though it’s not just inner conflict that’s at play in this film. It gives the audience a … Continue reading
Continuing from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End, and On Stranger Tides is Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is not the last in the this film franchise. Only reason to watch is Brenton Thwaites without the volume on, because there is little to this … Continue reading
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