Warning: spoilers ahead for Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceMichael Keaton once again donned the striped suit of one of his most iconic characters in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceWhich further explores the character's backstory without fully revealing his real name. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Starring some familiar frequent Tim Burton collaborators, the story picks up with the Deetz family many years after the original ended. Keaton's mischievous poltergeist returned to cause significantly more chaos, and provided more details about what makes Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. One of the key details that the original never addressed is the origins of Beetlejuice, or Betelgeuse's name. Although he is known as "Beetlejuice" in…
Author: Bill Dubiel
Summary The Crow 2024 delves deeper into Eric and Shelly's romance, providing more background on their connection. Despite efforts to explore their relationship, chemistry between Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs falls short. While certain changes work well, the lack of depth in the romance may leave fans missing the cosmic injustice of the original. Warning: Major spoilers for The Crow (2024) ahead! The 2024 remake of The Crow Seems to have fallen short of the 1994 original movie starring the late Brandon Lee in many ways, but there is one element that is better. The CrowThe debut Rotten Tomatoes score…
Summary Cate Blanchett Borderlands was a major flop, but her upcoming spy thriller Black Bag should earn her critical acclaim. Despite past dads, Blanchett's collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh in Black Bag Promises a high-quality film. Borderlands stands as the lowest point in Blanchett's career, however Black Bag With its stellar cast is set to quickly redeem its legacy. Cate Blanchett starred in what could be the worst blockbuster of 2024 in BorderlandsBut her next project is about as different from the video game adaptation as can be, and should be a lock for critical acclaim. Borderlands Earned a dismal…
Kevin Costner's long-running epic western movie series kicked off with Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1And one of the most intense story lines in its three-hour runtime centered around Jena Malone's Lucy and her attempted murder of the villain James Sykes. Set in the period immediately before, during and after the American Civil War, Horizon: An American Saga is set to weave a series of intertwining stories together over the course of one cohesive four-part narrative. Horizon's talented cast boasts a mix of Hollywood A-listers, familiar faces and newcomers portraying a diverse set of characters. Horizon: An American Saga…
Kevin Costner's epic traditional western series began with Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1But these Horizon Movie explains little, instead using its ending to transition into Chapter 2. Driven by a talented and star-studded cast of characters headlined by Costner himself, the four planned movies of Horizon: An American Saga Will explore the lives of multiple generations of settlers and indigenous people as they struggle to carve out lives in the American West before, during and after the Civil War. Chapter 1 Introduced most of the major players and locations. Kevin Costner provided some insight on the ending of…
Pixar's Inside Out 2 It broke multiple records on its theatrical release, and it's doing so again on Disney Plus, which is a massive win for the iconic company after the last four years. Since Toy Story Hitting theaters in 1995, Pixar established itself as the gold standard for animation not only in quality of production, but in quality of storytelling. Pixar's original movies are capable of inciting both laughter and tears, which is why they are successful. Inside Out 2 Captured everything that made Pixar great, and in doing so restored the company to its throne atop the animation…
Ishana Nacht Shyamalan's supernatural horror film The Watchers It starts out as an unsolved mystery before taking a massive twist, but the character's appearance in the film isn't the most shocking twist in the story. The Watchers is based on a 2021 novel of the same name by AM Shine, and stays relatively in line with the main story beats of the source material. In both the movie and the novel, a young woman named Mina finds herself lost and subsequently trapped in a massive unmapped forest in Ireland. Mina finds shelter in a bunker with some strangers, who inform…
The supernatural horror film The Watchers Spends a ton of screentime with a small group of people trapped in a mysterious and dangerous forest, so the talented cast is understandably small. The Watchers Is the film directorial debut of Ishana Nath Shyamalan, daughter of the iconic director M. Night Shyamalan. The film follows a young American immigrant to Ireland, Mina, who is trapped with others in a forest that is home to nocturnal creatures known as Watchers, whose appearance remains a mystery to anyone who has not met them. Mina and her fellow survivors remain trapped in a concrete bunker…
Summary The next one Planet of the Apes Movie should focus on time travel to connect the reboot with the original story. Despite falling short at the box office, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Set the stage for an intriguing sequel. To avoid being repetitive, the franchise needs to embrace sci-fi elements like time travel for a fresh storyline. 2024s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes moved the Planet of the Apes franchise forward both in time and in world-building, and granted kingdom's reception and box office return, the plot for the series' next movie should be…
Monsters of all kinds have fascinated mankind for millennia, often as an explanation for some of the world's most confounding ills and sources of fear. From sabertooth tigers painted on cave walls to modern Horror Movies, people have memorialized the nightmarish bogeymen who imprinted themselves in history. Contemporary pop culture is now marked by the latest interpretations of vampires, aliens, werewolves and demons, all of which have proven impervious to the march of time. As cinema creeps forward with a revamped interest in the horror genre in the 2020s, it's appropriate to look back at the greatest monster movies of…