Unlike 2014’s Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island doesn’t wait long to show you it’s namesake character and star of the show. The big ape is on-screen in record pace time to match his record height in this new incarnation to fit into the monster universe that was started with Godzilla just 3 years ago.
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For the second time Vin Diesel has returned to a franchise he skipped out on originally. Ice Cube may have stepped in for the second xXx film, and they may have explained that Xander died in that film… but forget about it! It was, of course, a faked death and Xander has been globe trotting around the world without anyone being able to find him. Until the plot of this film requires Toni Collette’s Jane Marke to find him, at which point they find him very quickly to bring him out of retirement. The xXx program is again in action.
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You may think you are witnessing a Broadway play or a recording of one, but this is La La Land.
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The first Star Wars spin-off movie is a proving grounds. A lot of the people involved at LucasFilm and Disney often seemed scared of this film, and the tone director Gareth Edwards was shooting for. Can you pull off a darker, more mature Star Wars film not involved in the main storyline? The answer is, of course, yes. Look at the lineage of Star Wars novels since the release of the original movie. But this movie has to hit with the mainstream movie-going audience, and it will.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sends us back into the Wizarding World that was introduced to readers in 1997, and cinema goers in 2001. Inspired by the book published under the same title, but with little to do with it outside of the fact both heavily feature magical creatures. The published book was done for charity and is mostly made up to look like Harry Potter’s real school book and gives descriptions and histories of magical creatures; some pages include scribbled notes from Harry and Ron as if they had written them while sitting in class. The film, however, focuses on the author of that book, Newt Scamander and the time shortly before his book is published while he is in New York City in 1926.
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Doctor Stephen Strange — an arrogant, egotistical, self-centered asshole. He cares about money and fame, and although he works to save lives as a neurosurgeon, it’s the glory of the case rather than the joy of saving lives that pushes Stephen through life. But when he loses the ability to use his hands properly, Stephen’s life changes forever.
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