Sadako v Kayako Review

Sadako vs. Kayako Sadako v Kayako(The Ring v The Grudge) won’t win over the uninitiated, but fans of both franchises should have a good time with this crossover. When university scholarly person Natsumi Ueno ( Aimi Satsukawa ) necessitate to transfer her parent ' wedding video from VHS to DVD as an anniversary nowadays , she enlists the helper of her technologically savvy friend Yuri Kurahashi ( Mizuki Yamamoto ) ....

January 27, 2017 · 7 min · 1282 words · Jennifer Conner

Split Review

Split Splitis the best M. Night Shyamalan creation in recent memory, as anchored by a great performance (or, rather, performances) by James McAvoy. An foreigner at her gamy school , Casey Cook ( Anya Taylor - Joy ) is begrudgingly invited to a birthday party by one of her match , Claire Benoit ( Haley Lu Richardson ) and ends up having to get a ride home afterwards , with Claire and her beneficial ally Marcia ( Jessica Sula ) ....

January 20, 2017 · 6 min · 1214 words · Justin Martin

Monster Trucks Review

Monster Trucks Monster Trucksis an OK kids movie that lacks most of the substance of the classic 1980s Amblin productions it tries to emulate. Tripp ( Lucas Till ) is a high school bookman living in North Dakota . He spend his days daydream of result his small hometown and work at the local junkyard possess by Mr. Weathers ( Danny Glover ) , prioritize fixing his truck over bettering his course ....

January 14, 2017 · 6 min · 1275 words · Tammy Simmons

Patriots Day Review

Patriots Day Patriots Day is more effective as a suspense thriller than a stirring docudrama that explores the complexities of real-life heroism. The year is 2013 and Boston police policeman Tommy Saunders ( Mark Wahlberg ) is on the last twenty-four hours of his semi - official pause for a premature incident , just in time for him to help handle crowd command at April ’s yearly Boston Marathon . Meanwhile , people from around the metropolis of Boston as well as the land of Massachusetts itself - ranging from Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis ( John Goodman ) to Massachusetts regulator Deval Patrick ( Michael Beach ) - prepare for the event too , as do locals such as Tommy ’s wife Carol ( Michelle Monaghan ) ; know all too well that their metropolis will be , in inwardness , shutting down while the marathon commences ....

January 13, 2017 · 7 min · 1325 words · Rebecca Berry

Silence Review

Silence Silence is beautifully-crafted and well-acted, but often frustrating in the way that it examines spirituality through historical drama. 17th - century Portuguese , Jesuit practitioners , Father Sebastião Rodrigues ( Andrew Garfield ) and Father Francisco Garupe ( Adam Driver ) are shocked one day when they receive parole that their mentor , one Father Cristóvão Ferreira ( Liam Neeson ) has perpetrate defection and renounced God while in Japan - a country where Catholicism and the practice of Christianity are foreclose ....

January 13, 2017 · 7 min · 1387 words · Julie Jones

Underworld: Blood Wars Review

Underworld: Blood Wars Underworld: Blood Wars is a poorly-constructed slog of a sequel that fails to engage the audience in any impactful manner. The vampire have become increasingly wary of their Lycan enemies , who are stronger than ever with Marius ' counseling . Desperate for any edge in the seemingly interminable warfare , the Lycan ruler will halt at nothing to find Eve and gain his coveted reward . It ’s up to Selene , David , and their fellow lamia to receive a way to terminate the scrap and keep those they love safe ....

January 7, 2017 · 5 min · 1029 words · Valerie Evans

A Monster Calls Review

A Monster Calls A Monster Callsis a beautiful and inspirational depiction of a young person’s battle with grief - but that doesn’t mean it’s foreveryyoung person. When single mother Lizzie O’Malley ( Felicity Jones ) is name with a last malady , her new son , Conor O’Malley ( Lewis MacDougall ) is left careen by the news - desperate to save his female parent and horrified at the medical prognosis of losing her ....

January 6, 2017 · 7 min · 1352 words · Rebecca Rivera

Hidden Figures Review

Hidden Figures Hidden Figuresis the rare true story-based historical drama that succeeds at being as inspirational and feel-good as it aspires to be. It ’s the former 1960s and the United States is in the estrus of a race with the Soviet Union to be the first to break novel basis in the final frontier : space . Mathematicians Katherine Coleman ( Taraji P. Henson ) , Dorothy Vaughn ( Octavia Spencer ) and Mary Jackson ( Janelle Monáe ) are all black woman working in the unintegrated West Area Computers division at the NASA Research Center in Langley when one twenty-four hour period , Katherine is unexpectedly enrol to serve as a ( human ) computer for the Space Task Group that is concentrating on getting a man into orbit around the Earth - with gruff , but focused and goal - oriented , manager Al Harrison ( Kevin Costner ) launch the charge ....

January 6, 2017 · 7 min · 1355 words · Richard Roberts

15 DC Extended Universe Rumors We Hope Are True

Related When it comes to comic book moving-picture show , the rumor manufacturing plant is always churn , and Warner Bros. ' burgeon DC Extended Universe ( DCEU ) is no exception . Three movies have thus far free in thehotly contestedyethigh - grossingDCEU , and there are enough more on the mode . Not only are hearing get their first hot - action team - up of theJustice Leaguebut solo movies forWonder Woman , Aquaman , The Flash , and more are also on the way ....

January 3, 2017 · 12 min · 2444 words · Michelle Johnson

Suicide Squad Gets Watchmen-Style Opening Sequence

Related Although still in its comparative infancy , the DCEU has seen two distinct directorial styles in its three cinematic oblation . Zack Snyder ’s eye shepherded bothMan of SteelandBatman V Superman : Dawn of Justiceto theaters , while David Ayer brought this summer’sSuicide Squadto the mix , aiming to play a coarse-grained flavor to match its baddie - as - heroes storyline . But before he was raze intact metropolises with an foreign dubstep machine and an extended Kryptonian fistfight , Snyder bring his directorial sensibility to an adaptation of Alan Moore ’s acclaimedWatchmenminiseries ....

January 2, 2017 · 3 min · 597 words · Christopher Powell

Fences Review

Fences Fencesstruggles to make the leap from the stage to the big screen, but is kept afloat by the powerhouse performances of its leads. Troy Maxson ( Denzel Washington ) is a 53 - year old food waste collector who lives in Pittsburgh circa the mid-1950s , along with his wife Rose ( Viola Davis ) and son Cory ( Jovan Adepo ) . After his dreams of becoming a baseball game player go unrealized when he was younger ( due to Troy ’s advance years by the metre professional baseball game was racially integrated ) , Troy now spends his days working alongside his longtime friend Jim Bono ( Stephen McKinley Henderson ) and providing care for his family - including , his now - adult son Lyons ( Russell Hornsby ) and his brother Gabe / Gabriel ( Mykelti Williamson ) , the latter of whom was entrust mentally impaired by a heading injury that he suffered while fighting in WWII ....

December 25, 2016 · 7 min · 1354 words · Dennis Roy

Why Him? Review

Why Him? Why Him?falls victim to its genre’s clichés, but Cranston and Franco make for an entertaining odd couple comedic pairing. Ned Fleming ( Bryan Cranston ) is the CEO of a struggling Michigan - based publish company who is very near to his daughter Stephanie ( Zoey Deutch ) . As Ned seek to land softwood to mother much - needed revenue , Stephanie invite her family - Ned , her female parent Barb ( Megan Mullally ) and younger brother Scott ( Griffin Gluck ) - for Christmas with her in California so they can drop the holidays together and meet her swain , famous video recording game couturier Laird Mayhew ( James Franco ) ....

December 23, 2016 · 6 min · 1179 words · Cesar Walker

Assassin's Creed Review

Related Assassin’s Creedis a step in the right direction for video game movies but slick action and beautiful visuals are undercut by a hollow hero story. Through Aguilar de Nerha , via Lynch , Abstergo seeks to bring out the placement of an ancient and herculean artifact ( previously hidden by 15th century assassins ) ; however , in the process , Lynch uncovers new information of his own - most notably insight into his personal history , the true identify of his captor and , through his sentence in the Animus , new science that could be the key to his escape ....

December 21, 2016 · 7 min · 1463 words · Lisa Riddle