Rise of the Beasts actually has me moderately excited for more Transformers movies? Color me surprised. BUMBLEBEE was the course correction this franchise needed, and RotB’s heart beats in rhythm. It’s not a home run, but Autobots x Maximals is a squad-up this BEAST WARS fan digs.
Full Review: www.ign.com/articles/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-review
Whimsical outcast storytelling, brilliant production design, and dead Nazis. Feels like an outlandish Álex de la Iglesia adventure, but not all the way. Definitely didn’t expect a time-warp [famous classic rock band] piano performance? Good stuff.
"Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel Prey succeeds by daring to embrace what prior sequels did not: Simplicity.
The basics of Predator cinema boil down to skull trophies and rival combat, but most of all, the thrill of an uninterrupted hunt. With brutal ease, writer Patrick Aison translates Predator codes to hunter-gatherer dichotomies in Native American cultures.
There’s nothing scarier than the laws of natural hierarchies on display in their most elemental forms, and that’s what Prey recognizes with menacing regard. There’s…
