Ready Player One Film Review

Holy pop culture phenomenon! Director Steven Spielberg brings us back to our childhood with Ready Player One, a cluster fest of everything 80s and pop culture. Starring Tyler Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Mark Rylance, this film goes Maximum Overdrive on nostalgia. In 2045, every populated area in the world pretty much look like slums. To escape …

A Wrinkle in Time Movie Review

There has been a wrinkle all right.... MY PATIENCE!!! Based on a 1962 novel of the same name, A Wrinkle in Time is director Ava DuVernay's first big budget movie. The movie star Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, and Oprah Winfrey. Four years after the disappearance of her well-known astrophysicist father Alexander (Chris Pine), Meg Murry …

Tomb Raider Film Review

Angelina Jolie may have the looks, but this is Lara Croft the way I picture it. Directed by Roar Uthaug, Tomb Raider is the reboot to the Tomb Raider film franchise originally starred by Angelina Jolie. Given a more realistic look and feel, this film aims to yet again build another film universe while planting the …

The Mummy (2017) Movie Review

9 years since The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Universal Pictures aims to reestablish the OG of the Cinematic Universe, the Universal Monsters Universe, with a new name: the Dark Universe. Directed by Alex Kurtzman (co-wrote The Legend of Zorro and the reboot Star Trek franchise), The Mummy is the first of a series of remakes by Universal Pictures …

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Movie Review

"The worst pirate we've heard of" returns in the fifth installment of the franchise. If The Fast and the Furious can get 8 movies, then Pirates of the Caribbean can do so as well. In its latest addition to the franchise, Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush welcome new characters portrayed by Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, and Kaya …

The Great Wall Movie Review

Despite what Wikipedia says, the Chinese apparently built the Great Wall because of dragon-type monsters... Directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero and House of Flying Daggers), this movie stars Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Andy Lau, and Pedro Pascal. Set in the Song dynasty, the movie revolves around William (Damon), a European mercenary who stumbles upon the Great Wall …

Passengers Film Review

Jennifer Lawrence as your only companion in space? SIGN ME UP! After the commercial and critical success of 2014's The Imitation Game, director Morten Tyldum enters the sci-fi genre with Passengers, starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. In the deep void of space, Jim Preston (Pratt), a passenger of the space ship Avalon, prematurely wakes up …

Assassin’s Creed Movie Review

For almost 2.5 decades, video game-based movies have been greatly disappointing. Will this be different? Well, the short answer is no. Director Justin Kurzel and the entire crew behind this movie failed to capture the spirit of the game its based on. The reason? A heavy reliance on CGI and too much setup for a sequel …

Rogue One Film Review

A spin-off prequel better than the prequel trilogy. Do you remember that opening crawl from Episode 4: A New Hope (1977)? Director Gareth Edwards and his writers managed to make a movie out of it. Is this really a necessary movie to make? With rumors circulating about other spin-offs focusing on Han Solo and Boba …

Moana Film Review

There are two things I learned from the stars of the latest Disney film: Dwayne Johnson can do anything and Auli'i Cravalho is a star everyone should watch out. Directed by  Ron Clements and John Musker (the guys who gave us Aladdin and Hercules), Moana stars Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson as the titular Moana and …