Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the upcoming release of “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” on home video. This feature-rich combo pack features the film in crisp, beautiful 4K with HDR, on Blu-ray, and on digital. Directed by David F. Sandberg, the film is the follow-up to the 2019 surprise superhero hit “Shazam!”. It’s a … Continue reading
New Trailer for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Promises More Death-Defying Action
Today Paramount Pictures dropped a new trailer for the highly anticipated blockbuster “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”. The edge-of-your-seat franchise is apparently coming to an end with an action-packed two-movie finale set to hit theaters. The two films were shot back-to-back with part one releasing this July and part two tentatively aiming for … Continue reading
Netflix Drops the Full Trailer for “Extraction 2”
I really liked the first “Extraction” – a movie that saw Chris Hemsworth slip away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to make a full-on old school action flick. Now we’re getting a sequel simply titled “Extraction 2”. A returning Sam Hargrave directs with Joe and Anthony Russo producing. Netflix gave us a good tease a … Continue reading
RETRO REVIEW: “Straw Dogs” (1971)
Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” was a provocative and (as a result) controversial movie of its time. Yet after watching it just a few days ago (some 52 years after its original release), I was surprised by how startlingly contemporary (and urgent) its themes happen to be. Take something like “toxic masculinity”, an issue which is … Continue reading
REVIEW: “The Mother” (2023)
I’m up for seeing Jennifer Lopez go full-action heroine just as much as anyone. And that’s what we get in director Niki Caro’s new film “The Mother”. Written by the trio of Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, and Peter Craig, this made for streaming genre feature gives the one-time Fly Girl on “In Living Color” turned … Continue reading
Review: “Everything Went Fine” (2023)
While hard at work writing her new novel Emmanuèle gets a phone call that no one wants to receive. She learns her 85-year-old father André has had a stroke and is being rushed to the hospital. This all too relatable moment sets the table for “Everything Went Fine”, the affecting and probing adult drama from … Continue reading