“Close these transactions, and your future with this franchise is assured!” (with apologies to Jonathan Harker.) As a late eighteenth-century period piece devolving into a graphic horror film, the drama plays out among the doomed crew between the lines of the novel’s logbook entries, redefining the narrative yet ending up in the same place. To fill in the blanks, the story is sprinkled with theoretical characters who, while not explicitly mentioned, might have existed in the most James Cameron Titanic…
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Meg 2: The Trench 2023
Our new story begins 65 million years ago… at least 40 million years earlier than megalodon was believed to exist. The Trench is as if The Meg were merged with the stock plot of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park hoping most folks probably wouldn’t notice. After all, Alten’s novel series was dubbed “Jurassic Shark,” and the sequel novel sort of goes in that direction. For three seventy-foot-long giant sharks, however, their size appears to change from scene to scene, sometimes small…
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Godzilla vs. Kong 2021
While the three previous films centered around Monarch and their Titans showing lots of good stuff diluted with confusing sci-fi and forgettable character fluff, Godzilla vs. Kong has honed the formula between holding viewer attention and essential foreshadowing before delivering everything promised. There are still huge leaps of faith along the way — travel times between global fighting locations fails to suspend disbelief — but the tradeoff is an experience brimming with some of the best visuals and sound ever produced for a big screen disaster flick. This brawl begs to be seen on the biggest screen possible coupled with an ear-bleeding surround-sound system.
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Children of the Corn 2020
The original story and film introduces Issac, an Amish-dressed boy who speaks for He Who Walks Behind the Rows, but there’s little explanation given for his rise to power other than an evil entity seizes an opportunity to do harm; guess that was left for the other ten sequels. In contrast, Wimmer’s remake reveals why the children would be swayed and even suggests the elemental force inhabiting the fields of being corrupted due to adults being irresponsible. While Kampouris’ Bo…