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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA

January 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA is a relentlessly obvious and overplayed exercise in draining the last dregs from a moribund franchise. Let me put it this way. Adam Sandler, not known for discriminating taste in projects, took a pass on this material that continues the saga of Drac, the vampiric proprietor of the titular establishment that caters… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, father-daughter, franchise, goofy human backpacker, monsters, mummy, sequel, South America, Transylvania, vampire

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

June 16, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

When a once profitable film franchise begins to fade, the studios that have reaped the benefits of same are left with little choice about how to handle it. With so much money at stake, both in ticket sales and ancillary merchandise on the line, they can’t just let it slip away with dignity. No, they… Read More »

Tagged With: aliens, franchise, reboot, sequel

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

December 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Good and evil are inextricably entwined in STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI.  It makes for a pleasing metaphysical subtext to a film with spectacular action sequences, pointed references to the political economics of the class struggle, and a character in Benicio Del Toro whose nihilism carries with it a whiff of Zen philosophy at its… Read More »

Tagged With: balance, franchise, good and evil, mysticism, Sci-fi, sequel, Star Wars, The Force, trilogy

STAR TREK: BEYOND

August 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

STAR TREK: BEYOND

The Star Trek franchise has never been about wondering how the intrepid crew of the Starship Enterprise would save the day against impossible odds. Rather, the suspense has always come from the struggle between hope and despair as they have battled aliens, space viruses, and their own inner conflicts to snatch victory from certain doom.… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a television series, franchise, marooned, science fiction, sequel, space travel, starship

JASON BOURNE

July 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

JASON BOURNE

I’m put in mind of tea leaves.  Good quality tea leaves that have rendered such a wonderful cup of tea that you wonder if maybe, just maybe, there’s enough of their essential, unique quality left to take one more infusion to make a cup as good as that first one.  And so it is with… Read More »

Tagged With: boxing, cybersecurity, digital privacy, driving angry, espionage, franchise, Las Vegas chase scene, sequel

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

May 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-MEN APOCALYPSE is as big and bold as a special effect-laden action-adventure flick should be. It’s also audacious enough to make the story about more than leveling the planet or finding new ways to decapitate people. As with the best in this series from the Marvel Comics universe, the real enemy is the lethal combination… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, ancient Egypt, franchise, Marvel Comics, mutants, origin story, sequel

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

March 25, 2016 By 5 Comments

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

For most of BATMAN V SUPERMAN’s bloviated pretension, I was merely bored. This half-baked idea studded with ponderous pronouncements, shockingly sedate action sequences, and the simulacrum of serious philosophical inquiry plodded along, weighed down by an overstuffed plot and an underdeveloped narrative. But when we arrived at a meticulous recreation of the deposition from the… Read More »

Tagged With: bathtub splash and tickle, comic book, DC Comics, franchise, Justice League, nightmare, superhero

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

December 16, 2015 By 1 Comment

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

What you really want to know is whether or not J. J. Abrams has worked his magic and saved the Star Wars franchise. The answer is not just yes. But, rather, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is perfection. That is all you really need to know and, while I will not do this film the disservice of lessening… Read More »

Tagged With: death star, franchise, jedi, out space, sequel, Star Wars

SPECTRE

November 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPECTRE

There are very specific things we want in a James Bond film. Great action, dastardly villains who are larger than life and twice as buggy, and Bond girls who have evolved over the years to be a bit more than merely a pulchritudinous interlude.  In Bond, as incarnated by Daniel Craig, we want a steely… Read More »

Tagged With: cabals, covert surveillance, espionage, franchise, intrigue, James Bond, sequel, spy

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION Rocks

July 31, 2015 By 1 Comment

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION Rocks

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION is lean, mean, and seriously fun. There is not a wasted moment for fans of high-energy, slickly plotted action flicks of the popcorn variety, as this installment of the franchise finds the Impossible Mission Force shut down by the government, but not out of business. Not by a longshot. Their last official… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Alec Baldwin, conspiracy, franchise, Jeremy Renner, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION, narrative, sequel, shadow government, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise

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