Disney’s live action remakes have been a roller coaster of quality from the surprising success of 2015’s Cinderella to the creatively bankrupt production of 2019’s The Lion King. Thankfully, Cruella falls somewhere in the middle, not falling into the traps that made some outings feel like blatant cash grabs, but also not fully committing to the weirdness that the director is striving for.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
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Army of the Dead - Review
After months and months of Zack Snyder hearing his name in the news with the long sought after debut of the famed Snydercut, the director returns to the world of the undead with Army of the Dead. His first venture into the zombie world came 17 years ago, with a remake of George Romero’s classic Dawn of the Dead, but instead of adapting someone else’s work into his own style, Snyder takes an original, over the top approach to his newest film.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The Mitchells vs the Machines - Review
The duo of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have quickly made a name for themselves by taking what sounds like an odd, or even bad, idea on paper and turning it into absolute gold. They made the Jump Street and LEGO films work despite everything going against them, and their role in producing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse makes them a tandem to always pay attention to. In 2021, the pair have brought us the Mitchells, a dysfunctional family smack dab in the middle of the robot apocalypse.