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Godzilla: King of the Monsters – A Novelty of Gigantic Proportions
by Ted Giese Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the third entry in the Warner Bros./ Legendary Entertainment Kaiju-style series based on the Godzilla and King Kong franchises. Starting with 2014’s Godzilla and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, this new film paves the way forward for…
Aladdin – Rubbing the remake lamp for big returns
by Ted Giese Aladdin is the story of a “diamond in the rough” thief and street urchin. Living in the fictional Arabian port city of Agrabah, Aladdin is in a struggle with Jafar, the Sultan’s Grand Vizier, for control of a magic lamp and its…
In Review: Glass
This review contains spoilers Seeing Through Glass Glass (2019) is part three in a film trilogy by writer/director M. Night Shyamalan. This is the trilogy few expected to happen. Shyamalan gained notoriety as a filmmaker with The Sixth Sense (1999) and its clever twist ending…
In Review: Aquaman
Not So Serious: Aquaman Charts a New Course for DC Aquaman is the story of Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) the son of a lighthouse keeper, Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison), and an Atlantean princess, Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), who must come to terms with his royal lineage…
In Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Losing the magic Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) is the second Harry Potter prequel by director David Yates under the Fantastic Beasts title penned for the screen by J.K. Rowling. It continues the story started in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them…
In Review: The Nun
An unsatisfying horror The Nun is the latest instalment in an ever-growing series of loosely connected horror films started by the surprise success of director James Wan’s The Conjuring (2013). Here the story is credited to Wan, but he did not direct. The Nun’s director…
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