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Movie Review - 'Kong: Skull Island' Isn't Monkeying Around
Posted by Jason Ingolfsland on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 12:00 AM By Jason Ingolfsland / March 21, 2017 Comment
After the roaring success of Godzilla, the resurgence of the monster movie was officially in full swing, giving studios the green light to release several more remakes and reboots of classic monster films. And while we wait for them to unearth Steve McQueen’s The Blob (crosses fingers), we’ll have to settle for more popular franchises like King Kong. Kong: Skull Island does everything it needs to be a crowd pleaser minus one pretty important piece. It’s heavy on the action and comedy, providing a fun escape to the theater, but the overflowing humor...

Movie Review -- 'Crimson Peak' is a Little Undercooked
Posted by Ryan Sanderson on Monday, October 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM By Ryan Sanderson / October 19, 2015 Comment

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Fantasy has enjoyed an upswing in the last two decades. Twenty years ago the term conjured for the public imagination images of Disney films, kitschy studio oddities like Willow and Labyrinth, and low rent embarrassments like the Dungeons and Dragons movie. Today fantasy films are often pitched as major awards contenders. They litter the summer and fall release slots. “Nerd culture” has not just been accepted by pop culture. It has become pop culture. Guillermo Del Toro, the writer and director of Crimson Peak, is as responsible for the present climate as anyone. His early films Cronos ...