Considering the ongoing superhero fatigue pandemic, the fact that nearly everyone involved in the project was on strike in the days leading up to its release, and most importantly, the relative obscurity of the character, the odds of Jaime Reyes finding an audience in a wide release always felt slim. Somehow, though, as the DC …
What do you get when four (sort-of) friends go to a run-down hotel full of potential ghosts for the weekend? A recipe for disaster, of course. So begins Stewart Thorndike’s 2023 horror film, Bad Things, for Shudder. After Ruthie (Gayle Rankin) inherits a hotel in her grandmother’s will, she struggles with the decision of whether …
Knocking Barbie off the top of the box office is an achievement, but it’s about the only positive to be drawn from the disappointing debut of Blue Beetle, which does at least have the marketing opportunity to be called the number one movie in the country for the next seven days. Coming in with an …
The rotten run of luck to have plagued the DCU over the last half a decade continued after Blue Beetle opened to a soft $25.4 million at the domestic box office, although one sliver of a silver lining is that the most recent projections indicated as much. While it’s never nice to see an acclaimed …
With the obvious exception of this year’s Fast X and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, the two and three-parter has started to go out of fashion a little bit recently, although there’s absolutely nothing in common between Vin Diesel’s latest ludicrous outing as noted tank top enthusiast Dominic Toretto, Ethan Hunt’s most recent adventure, and …
It’s been obvious to everybody except Paramount that audiences lost interest in the Transformers franchise almost a decade ago when Michael Bay’s Age of Extinction became the saga’s second consecutive billion-dollar hit. Earnings dropped by over $500 million by the time The Last Knight rolled around, before they dipped again despite Bumblebee scoring better reviews …
Hip-hop has a long, tragic history of murder and mayhem. Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Big L., Fat Pat, Mac Dre, Big Hawk, Magnolia Shorty, XXXTentacion, Nipsey Hustle, Pop Smoke and dozens of others have been shot since the late ’80s. In terms of infamy, the unsolved murders of Shakur and Biggie have attracted the most …
For a number of different reasons, the Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad has found itself in a unique position where everybody wants the never-ending saga to draw to a close. In one corner you’ve got the filmmaker and his loyal supporters who continue keeping the abandoned vision for the DCEU’s antihero ensemble at the forefront …
Before The Super Mario Bros. Movie came along and hoovered up over a billion dollars like it was nobody’s business, a strange pattern was emerging when it came to earning the status of the highest-grossing video game adaptation in the history of cinema, with Warcraft the second to seize an oxymoronic accolade. Disney’s Prince of …
Hopefully, the ship has well and truly sailed on dark and gritty reboots, with the industry’s obsession on name-dropping Batman Begins as the inspiration behind almost every re-imagining to come along in the next decade and a half resulting in significantly more misses than hits. Live-action remakes continue to be all the rage as Disney …