Category: Verdict: 3.0
The piece mostly accomplishes what it sets out to do but only because it doesn’t set the bar high.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Ah, yes, the one with the eighties “lock and load” montage. By 1988, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) had gained such popularity, even in the…
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
With the bigwigs at Disney harnessing the full power of synergistic hype, it’s become difficult to separate the Marvel movies from their media coverage….
Brave (2012)
Brave starts off so strong it was bound to disappoint eventually. The same can be said of its production company, Pixar, which has captivated…
Chuck 4.14: Chuck versus the Seduction Impossible
Casey: “We need a bad guy.” Chuck: “So badly.” Meet General Dianne Beckman. As Team Bartowski’s commander in chief at the CIA, she’s abrupt,…
Chuck 4.17: Chuck versus the First Bank of Evil
Beckman: “If this mission is going to work, you need to turn that girl into a Volkoff.” Meet Vivian Volkoff, new head of the…
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Back in 2009, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller took us by surprise with their adaptation of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a…
Divergent (2014)
Given the unprecedented success of The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games (2012), is it any wonder studios are now mining the entire young…
Elysium (2013)
I find myself somewhat ambivalent about Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium. On the one hand, the movie displays all the creativity and resourcefulness you’d expect from…
Evil Dead (2013)
In Scream 4 (2011), Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson posited that the first rule of reviving a franchise consists of respecting the original (or…
Freddy’s Nightmares (1988-1990)
With studios delving into increasingly obscure fair to pad out their BluRay and DVD catalog, I’m surprised that no one has thought of dusting…
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