About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie …
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Time for a Reel OPPENHEIMER review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. Oppenheimer is a complex and challenging film that tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the …
Time for a Reel JUNGLE CRUISE review
About the film (courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures): A rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff (Dwyane Johnson) and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt). Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank’s questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila—his ramshackle-but-charming boat. Lily …
Time for a Reel A QUIET PLACE PART II review
About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that …
Time for a Reel MARY POPPINS RETURNS review
More than a half-century ago, Julie Andrews took the Banks family under her care while also the world reasons to sing and dance. Mary Poppins was a bona fide live action hit for Disney and its catchy tunes would help turn in it into a timeless classic. In those days, Hollywood was more of a …
Time for a Reel A QUIET PLACE review
There’s just something about a good horror movie that is accompanied by an equally powerful audio arrangement. In a well done horror movie, audiences can be subconsciously trained to get worked up prior to impending doom actually coming to fruition on the screen. Anyone can throw gore and lazy jump scares at you. The real …
A QUIET PLACE Sounds of Silence Featurette
One of the most effective ways to evoke fear into the masses is to use their own imaginations against them. What is more terrifying, sound or the complete absence of it? Once your mind buys into whatever you’re watching or listening to, it’s going be a bumpy ride from then on. Paramount Pictures has a …