During Paul Walker’s brief absence from the Fast and Furioushe starred Into the blue — and could have been the actor’s replacement action-adventure franchise. After playing Brian O’Conner in Fast and Furious and its first sequel, 2 Fast 2 FuriousWalker was missing from the trio, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. He only returned to the role of Brian in the 2009 soft reboot, simply titled Fast and Furiouswhich moved away from the series’ focus on street racing and turned it into a more straightforward action film franchise. While Brian is undoubtedly Walker’s most iconic character, he has had a very…
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The cast of Frasier the reboot series hasn’t felt entirely cohesive until now, but season 2, episode 9, “Murder Most Finch,” appears to have finally resolved that issue. “Murder Most Finch” finds Olivia throwing a surprise murder mystery party and Frasier doing everything in his power to excuse himself and his date from joining in on the fun. The episode continues Frasier’s romance with his latest love interest, down-to-earth bartender Holly Quagliano, played by Everybody loves RaymondPatricia Heaton, which is her most promising relationship in the reboot to date. This was easily one of the Frasier best reboot episodes so…
Rick and MortyThe season finales delivered some of the show’s all-time best episodes, but not all of them were great. The finale is without a doubt the most important episode of a television season. It has to wrap up all the current story arcs (or at least provide some major developments on them) and surpass everything that came before it. It has to leave the audience satisfied, because it’s the last time they’ll see the show for a while, but it also has to leave them wanting more so they stay tuned when the next season premieres. Throughout its execution,…
Will Turner goes on a small murder spree when he leaves a trail for Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s Endand the film strangely glosses over this. At the end of the world was one of a trio of three highly anticipated sequels that hit theaters in the summer of 2007, along with Spider-Man 3 and Shrek the Third. And since Shrek the Third was a big step forward from its predecessor and Spider-Man 3 was considered one of the worst comic book films ever made, Pirates of the Caribbean without a doubt it had the best sequence…
Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie have made a total of five films together in more than two decades of collaboration, but they still haven’t surpassed their first film. Statham and Ritchie’s careers were intertwined from the beginning; they both started in cinema at the same time. When Ritchie was planning his debut film – the 1998 crime comedy Padlock, stock and two smoking barrels – he discovered Statham’s potential as an actor. At the time, Statham was known as a diver and model. Ritchie felt that Statham’s history working on market stalls would make him perfect for the role of…
Daniel Craig James Bond The timeline doesn’t make much sense, because his 007 goes from inexperienced newcomer to grizzled veteran in just one film. Craig was the first Bond actor to get a proper character arc. All previous Bond actors have done a series of independent films and stopped when their contracts ended. But Craig’s tenure told a complete story from beginning to end. It all started with Bond’s origins in Royal Casinoshowing how he became a 00 agent (and a cold-hearted killer), and ended with Bond’s death in There’s no time to die. But, although Craig’s Bond story is…
Transformers Onethe underwhelming commercial performance continues the Transformers the franchise’s gradual decline at the box office after seven years of financial disappointments. Transformers One marks the first time that an animation Transformers the film has been released theatrically since the inaugural adaptation of the series, The Transformers: The Moviewas released in 1986. The new animated film is one of several projects coming out of the writers’ room that Paramount put together with the goal of transforming Transformers in a Marvel-style cinematic universe, but that effort has yet to achieve Marvel-sized box office success. With Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley…
There are many things that do John Wick great, but Willem Dafoe’s role in the original film established the franchise’s trend of bringing in scene-stealing guest stars to round out the cast. When John Wick was first released in theaters in 2014, no one expected it to launch a blockbuster franchise that could take on Marvel and Fast and Furious. But the seeds of a potential franchise were there. The reveal of a high-end hotel chain that specifically caters to the assassin community sparked the impressive world-building that the John Wick franchise was built. Above all, what audiences love about…
From Rain’s fate in the hospital to Mallory’s relationship with Calvin, there are many unanswered questions and lingering plot threads. Beauty in Black 1st season that the 2nd season has to continue. Beauty in Black The first season ended with the most exciting and action-packed episode ever. It all started with a shooting at a safe house and ended with a brutal fight in a parking lot. Kimmie and Angel are on the run, Mallory’s hair care empire is in legal trouble, and Rain is in the hospital, still recovering from surgical complications. Netflix has already renewed Beauty in Black…
There is a new project on the way Horizon: an American saga franchise, and frankly it looks a lot more exciting than any of Kevin Costner’s planned sequels. In June, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 was released in theaters with very little fanfare. Horizon received mixed reviews from critics, earning an evenly polarized 51%.”rotten”critic score and 70% a little hotter”fresh”Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a box office bomb, grossing just US$31,497,309 worldwide with a budget of US$50 million (via The Numbers). Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is the first of four planned Horizon films.…