Warning: This article contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus While Alien: Romulus was a solid addition to these Alien franchise, the reboot went through the same inexplicable stumbles as many of its predecessors. All the movies in the Alien Franchises have their highlights and low points, and 2024’s long-awaited reboot Alien: Romulus is no different. Alien: RomulusEnding features an ingenious set piece where the heroine uses zero gravity to wipe out an entire hive of xenomorphs, but the reboot also includes a wry nod to one of the most famous quotes from Aliens Only minutes later. generally, Alien: Romulus is a…
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Trap (2024) Summary TrapIts ending lacks the signature Shyamalan twist, leaving viewers wanting more surprise and absurdity. Hartnett’s performance adds depth to a generic thriller, but fails to deliver the expected Shyamalan twist. Compared to Shyamalan’s past works, Trap falls short of delivering a memorable and impactful conclusion. As one who goes to Night Shyamalan Movies expect enjoyable absurdity, I can’t help but feel let down when TrapThe ending was so uncharacteristically reasonable. If I try to judge Josh Hartnett’s comeback objectively, 2024 Trap is by no means a bad movie. Hartnett gives another…
Although not many viewers have heard of one of 2024’s great horror hidden gems, Mike Flanagan is due to spotlight the Irish indie funny As one of the year’s highlights. It may seem hard to believe when there’s a whole slate of upcoming Mike Flanagan TV shows and movies on the way, but there was a time when the genre legend was an obscure indie director. Before the breakout success of his 2018 Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House Making him a major name in Hollywood horror, Flanagan was best known for smaller horror movies like Oculus, Before I…
yet Long legs Proved a huge hit for director Osgood Perkins, his upcoming Stephen King Adaptation The monkey It looks like it will take the director in a shocking, and promising, new direction. Now that the dust has settled on the sleeper hit success of Long legsIt’s fair to say that director Osgood Perkins doesn’t have the hallmarks of a blockbuster helmer. Perkins’ three previous movies, The Black Daughter, I am the beautiful thing that lives in this houseAnd Gretel and Hansel are punishingly bleak horror movies that earned these Long legs A terrible director Rotten tomatoes Average. Related Not…
Although South ParkWhile the latest experiment with live-action storytelling wasn’t a complete disaster, it did prove that the show shouldn’t be relying on the medium anytime soon. While South Park Season 27 hasn’t arrived yet, so there’s no reason to think this outing will change the show’s format completely. In recent years, South Park has released short, six-episode seasons along with two annual feature-length specials instead of the show’s typical 10-episode seasons. However, the show hardly experimented with new formats or styles during this time. This may be due to focus on the video game South Park: Snow Day. Although…
Summary The Simpsons Season 36 needs to learn from its recent successes and failures to maintain its critical hot streak. Recent seasons have shown improvement by focusing on Marge and developing stronger storylines for her character. The show should continue to double down on popular tricks and incorporate more Marge-focused episodes for a successful season 36. While The Simpsons Season 36 could stop the show’s critical hot streak, which will require the series to learn a lesson from Season 35’s weakest outing. The Simpsons It’s been on the air for over 35 years, so it’s no surprise that the show’s…
Although The Simpsons Season 36 promises plenty of new surprises, one of the most exciting elements of the long-running show’s next outing is a throwback. The Simpsons Season 36 isn’t resting on its laurels. Despite spending more than 35 years on the air, the anarchic animated sitcom will do everything it can to innovate in season 36. The Simpsons Season 36 promises a two-part, online-exclusive Christmas special, a Disney+ Halloween short, and not one, but two Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials. The Simpsons Season 36’s story tricks ensure that the upcoming outing will remain exciting. Related However, it’s a return…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Simpsons Season 36, Episode 1 Although he is often blamed for heralding the end of the show’s Golden Age, The Simpsons Season 36, Episode 1 brought back one of its most controversial supporting characters ever. The Simpsons Was on the air for over 35 years and, during this time, its critical decline is well documented. It is widely agreed that the so-called Golden Age of The Simpsons Started around season 3 and ended before season 12, meaning 23 of the show’s seasons arrived after its peak. Despite this, recent years have seen Youtube…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Simpsons Season 36, Episode 1 Almost three decades after the show initially promised the twist, The Simpsons Season 36, Episode 1 finally killed off the show’s main villain. While The Simpsons With a season 37 renewal not yet confirmed, the series isn’t saving any of its more ambitious ideas until its next outing. The Simpsons Season 36’s Treehouse of Horror specials will expand on Season 34’s risky experiment by including both a standard Halloween anthology episode and a second, separate “Treehouse of Horror Presents” outing celebrating the work of Ray Bradbury. The season…
While The Simpsons Season 36, Episode 2 technically killed off an existing character, many viewers would be hard pressed to remember the unfortunate guest star. The world of The Simpsons is a complex. While it sometimes seems like the chaotic cartoon is constantly changing the reality that its heroes live in, The Simpsons The show almost always reinstates its status quo at the end of each episode. The Simpsons Season 37 may change that but for now, no matter how weird the events of any given outing are, the show snaps back to normality in the next episode. Related The…