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Review: Triple 9 Is Disjointed And Wastes Its Impressive Cast
Title: Triple 9 Director: John Hillcoat Screenwriter: Matt Cook Principal Cast: Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, and Clifton Collins Jr. Summary: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town. I had […]
What Studios Should Learn From Deadpool (And What They Won’t)
Now that the opening weekend is behind us we can call Deadpool a huge success. I wasn’t sure if the audience would go out in droves but I was hopeful that the movie would do well. Deadpool has not only done better than anyone expected but it has done better than a lot of superhero […]
Review: From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series Season 2 Blu-Ray Is A Bloody Good Time
From Dusk Till Dawn:The Series Season Two Format: Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen Language: English Number of discs: 3 Rated: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Entertainment One DVD Release Date: February 2, 2016 Run Time: 448 minutes The first season of From Dusk Till Dawn is a show that I feel not enough people had heard of. I […]
Review: Zoolander 2 Is Mean Spirited And Lazy
Title: Zoolander 2 Director: Ben Stiller Screenwriter: Justin Theroux (written by), Ben Stiller (written by and character Derek Zoolander), Nicholas Stoller (written by), John Hamburg (written by), and Drake Sather (character Derek Zoolander) Principal Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Penelope Cruz, and Kristen Wiig Summary: Derek and Hansel are modeling again when an […]
Review: Deadpool Is Crude, Juvenile, And A Perfect Adaptation Of The Character
Title: Deadpool Director: Tim Miller Screenwriter:Rob Liefeld (character), Fabian Nicieza (character), Rhett Reese (screenplay), and Paul Wernick (screenplay) Principal Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skerin, Stefan Kapicic, and Brianna Hildebrand Summary: A form Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerating healing powers, adopting […]
Review: Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Isn’t Very Good But Weirdly Entertaining
Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Director: Burr Steers Screenwriter: Burr Steers (screenplay), Jane Austen (Quirk Books novel), and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk Books novel) Principal Cast: Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Ellie Bamber, Millie Brady, and Douglas Booth Summary: Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in […]
Review: The Finest Hours Misses The Human Element In A Disaster Movie
Title: The Finest Hours Director: Craig Gillespie Screenwriter: Scott Silver (screenplay), Paul Tamasy (screenplay), Eric Johnson (screenplay), Casey Sherman (book), and Michael J. Tougias (book) Principal Cast: Chris Pine, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Kyle Gallner, and Eric Bana Summary: The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod […]
Review: Kung Fu Panda 3 Holds Kid Attention Better Than Adults
Title: Kung Fu Panda 3 Director: Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh Screenwriter: Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger Principal Cast: Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, J.K. Simmons, and Lucy Lui Summary: Continuing his “legendary adventures of awesomeness”, Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little […]
Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi Feels 13 Hours Long
Title: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi Director: Michael Bay Screenwriter: Chuck Hogan (screenplay) and Michael Zuckoff (book ‘13 Hours’) Principal Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, and Max Martini Summary: An American Ambassador in killed during an attack on a U.S. controlled compound in Libya as a […]
In Defense Of Fanfiction
I can remember quite clearly the first fanfiction I read. It was back in middle or high school. I would say that is about right. I was inspired to write my first long form story back then as well and over the next year or so I wrote over 50,000 words of this extremely ambitious […]
Review: The Revenant Features A Top Tier Lead Performance But Is A Little Long
Title: The Revenant Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Screenwriter: Mark L. Smith (screenplay), Alejandro González Iñárritu (screenplay), and Michael Punke (based in part on the novel by) Principal Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck, and Paul Anderson Summary: A frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s […]
Top And Bottom Ten Movies Of 2015
Time for the top and bottom lists of the years. There are several large releases I haven’t seen such as Joy, The Big Short, and The Hateful Eight. HONORABLE MENTIONS Brooklyn Trumbo Star Wars: The Force Awakens Ant-Man Avengers: Age Ultron Jurassic World Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation The Revenant TOP TEN 10. Me, Earl, And […]
Review: The Danish Girl Trivializes Trans People For Oscar Nominations
Title: The Danish Girl Director: Tom Hooper Screenwriter: David Ebershoff (novel) and Lucinda Coxon (screenplay) Principal Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoemaerts, Amber Heard, and Ben Whishaw Summary: The term ‘Oscar bait’ has been thrown around a few times this year. They say the best way to catch an Oscar is to follow a […]
Review: Concussion Doesn’t Feel Angry Enough But Has Great Performances
Title: Concussion Director: Peterson Landesman Screenwriter: Peter Landesman (written by) and Jeanne Marie Laskas (GQ article “Gain Brain”) (in part) Principal Cast: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Morse, and Arliss Howard Summary: In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated […]
Spoilers, Social Media, And How to Not Be A Jerk
Before I got hired by WatchPlayRead I was writing my own blog, and I did an opinion piece about spoilers and social media. I thought about just linking to it again now that it has come up with the release of Star Wars but my points were a little different for that piece. That one […]
