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Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

Set to the backdrop of ‘Awesome Mixtape #2,’ Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team’s adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill’s true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan-favorite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes’ aid as the Marvel cinematic universe continues to expand.

Ghost In The Shell Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

In 1995 Ghost in the Shell directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on the manga by Shirow Masamune was released, since then it’s become something a cult anime classic. When I watched the film as a kid, I found it to be a bore, it’s deeper questions asked about life and what makes us human was lost on me. Similarly the same year I watched Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, which I also found to be boring and its more minutiae details lost on me. Where both films featured action and cool sci-fi worlds, they asked deeper things of the audience. The 2017 film based on Masamune’s manga is none of these things and it’s boring to me for all the wrong reasons.

The Fate Of The Furious Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

Yeah, we’re up to number eight of these Fast and Furious films now. By this stage the Saw franchise has gone 3D, Police Academy has given up and Jason Voorhees has decided to take on Manhattan. Well, the Fast crew are going to take on New York and their own leader as — if you haven’t watched any promotional material — Dom, the leader, family man, freshly married and seemingly semi-retired from his old lifestyle is going bad. Dominic Toretto has gone rogue.

Power Rangers Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

As a kid, I remember loving the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The action was fun and seemed like it belonged in an animated cartoon. The characters also seemed to reflect the cartoon aspect, but they were your typical 90’s cartoon stereotypes. You watched it for the stupid costumes, the stupid effects and the fact they have robot-dinosaur vehicles. Oddly enough, all that made me love the series as a kid, all that — that’s what I hated most about this movie.

Kong: Skull Island Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

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.

xXx: Return of Xander Cage Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

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.

La La Land Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

You may think you are witnessing a Broadway play or a recording of one, but this is La La Land.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

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.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review

Posted by Dylan Blight | May 2, 2017 | Movie Review | 0

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.

Author: Dylan Blight