Disney is second to none when it comes to the revenue realized from their ingenious intellectual properties. It’s no coincidence that two highest grossing movie franchises belong to Disney. Star Wars currently sits at #2 with another chapter unfolding in less than a month. Above that franchise, and with quite a comfortable margin, is none …
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Time for a Reel SUPER TROOPERS 2 review
When it comes to humours collaborations that involve the United States and their overly friendly neighbors to the north (that would be Canada), there are some other comedies that you might probably already have in the back of your mind. Strange Brew (1983) was a classic and Goon (2011) is another solid, more recent comedy …
Time for a Reel I FEEL PRETTY review
Amy Schumer has found a nice little niche for herself as female comedic lead with an edgy side. Much in the way that Melissa McCarthy has done in recent years, Schumer has given herself a leg up with R-rated humor that tickles fans in the right way. She’s now taming things down a bit with …
Time for a Reel Blumhouse’s TRUTH OR DARE review
April happens to be a month that contains a Friday the 13th. That means that someone will be looking to make a quick buck based on this ominous date in the world of horror. With another recently released horror movie, A Quiet Place, foregoing the easy target option of releasing on this cursed day (and …
Time for a Reel RAMPAGE review
We’ve gotten used to video games becoming the inspiration for movies. The 1986 arcade game, Rampage, pitted three larger than life creatures against military forces while laying waste to the surrounding landscapes. Many quarters were spent feeding players’ appetites for destruction. The game found its way to home consoles with its most popular version being …
Time for a Reel BLOCKERS review
Kay Cannon has done a lot of writing for NBC’s 30 Rock and she wrote the screenplays for all three Pitch Perfect movies. Cannon clearly has the talent needed to bring laughs from the audience is all that she does. Now she has progressed to the next step, directing. Making her directorial debut with the …
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 …
Time for a Reel PACIFIC RIM UPRISING review
Transformers, Godzilla, King Kong. These have been some of the larger than life entities that have taken a giant bite out of the box worldwide box office in the past several years. I mention “worldwide” because for some reason or another, these large-sized characters seem to resonate more so with international audiences than they do …
Time for a Reel 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE review
7 Days in Entebbe is director’s José Padilha’s version of the true events that occurred just over 40 years ago in Uganda. In July of 1976, a small group of separatists set out to hijack an Air France flight headed from Tel-Aviv to Paris. Two of the terrorists (Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl) are a …
Time for a Reel TOMB RAIDER review
Tomb Raider was a 1996 video game that put a tough and talented English archaeologist in search of ancient treasures front and center, capturing the imagination of millions. Including spin-offs, there have been more than 15 games spread out on over 20 different platforms all because of the talented lead female character, Lara Croft. And …