WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT IS WHAT MAKES YOU SPIDER-MAN. At the same time as Spider-Man battles Kingpin, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is bitten by a spider and gains the same superpowers as Spider-Man. A comic-book character in danger of being overexposed gets a new look in the shape of a biracial teenager and throws him … Continue reading Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
THE LEGEND YOU KNOW. THE STORY YOU DON’T. After serving in the Crusades, Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) returns home only to find his estate seized by the same man who forced him to leave in the first place, the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn). A retelling of the classic story that satisfied no one, … Continue reading Robin Hood
SANTA’S IN TOWN EARLY THIS YEAR. On Christmas Eve, two warring siblings (Judah Lewis, Darby Camp) happen to catch Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) on tape – and are whisked off on an adventure with him. You can tell Russell is having fun as Santa here, always sensitive about his weight, always cracking one-liners; he even … Continue reading The Christmas Chronicles
WHO WILL CHANGE THE FUTURE? When Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) escapes spectacularly from his New York prison, both Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and a young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) are contacted by the British Ministry of Magic who need their help. It’s only the second movie in this franchise and it’s already marred by convoluted subplots, … Continue reading Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
FROM ZERO TO HERO. Timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) finds a magical wooden mask that turns him into a confident, wise-cracking trickster with superpowers. Along with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, this adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book made Carrey into a major star in 1994. He’s the right person to play the … Continue reading The Mask
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING. Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) agrees to write a biography for a charming Arab ruler (Spiros Focas) and visits his country… where she soon learns there are cracks in the façade. The sequel to Romancing the Stone (1984) might’ve been something if the woman who wrote the … Continue reading The Jewel of the Nile
SOME SECRETS ARE TOO BIG TO KEEP. When a lumberjack crew find an 11-year-old boy (Oakes Fegley) deep in the forest, they have no idea that he’s been living there for the past six years with a friendly dragon. The Disney animated version from 1977 may not be one of their great classics, but this … Continue reading Pete’s Dragon
HER LEGEND BEGINS. After the disappearance of her father (Dominic West), Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) finds a secret message from him and heads to Hong Kong to follow in his tracks… Here’s a reboot that works better than the Angelina Jolie movies, introducing a younger, more grounded Lara Croft who’s less of a comic-book character; … Continue reading Tomb Raider
HIS SWORD CARVED HIS NAME ACROSS THE CONTINENTS – AND HIS GLORY ACROSS THE SEAS! In the mid-1930s, swashbuckling turned out to be lucrative in Hollywood. After the success of a few movies on that theme, Warner went back to their silent era and figured that a movie they made back in 1924 (which is … Continue reading Captain Blood: Rise of a Buccaneer
THE PARK IS GONE. After being hired by a dying billionaire (James Cromwell) who wants to save the dinosaur species from getting killed by an exploding volcano on Isla Nublar, Owen and Claire (Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island… but it’s a trap. The fifth film in the franchise has been lovingly … Continue reading Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
IT IS NOT WHAT IS OUTSIDE, BUT WHAT IS INSIDE THAT COUNTS. In 1992, Disney was on a roll. After the success of The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1991), the studio had entered a renaissance and more hits were to come. Still, when Howard Ashman suggested adapting a Middle Eastern folk … Continue reading Aladdin: Arabian Anarchy
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN OF OUR TIME IN THE MOST EROTIC ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME. After her mother’s death, Jane Parker (Bo Derek) travels to Africa where she eventually tracks down her father (Richard Harris), a hunter looking for a mythical ”white ape”. 10 (1979) turned Derek into a huge sex symbol and this was … Continue reading Tarzan, the Ape Man
A young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) joins a band of misfits led by Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson), as he tries to find a way to return to the planet where he lost a girl (Emilia Clarke) he loved. The X-Men Origins: Wolverine of the Star Wars franchise, this 3D spin-off and prequel to Star Wars … Continue reading Solo: A Star Wars Story
