Tag: Amazon
REVIEW: G20 (2025)
G20 has been a looming threat for the last couple of months, a movie that looked so bad that it almost had to be covered because it would epitomize everything wrong with the state of modern entertainment. It was just released on Amazon Prime, and it sort of lives up to expectations. It’s not as &h...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 3, Episode 8, “Unfinished Business”
“Unfinished Business” brings season 3 of Reacher to a close with a mostly satisfying finale that wraps up everyone’s stories and features plenty of action and some good one-liners. But as with most of the season, it’s missing a few things that would have brought some of the conflicts full c...
Read MoreAmazon Hires New James Bond Producers
Amazon has brought in a new pair of handlers for 007. Deadline was the first to report that Amy Pascal and David Heyman have been hired to produce the next James Bond movie and, presumably, the rest of what Amazon wants to turn into a Marvel-style mega-franchise. Pascal is most famous for having pro...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 3, Episode 7, “L.A. Story”
“L.A. Story” is one of those essential but unsung episodes. It’s the last one before the finale, so it’s mostly setting up the final battle, which means it’s not going to have the payoffs everyone is craving at this point in the season. But the buildup is necessary to make the explosion th...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 3, Episode 6, “Smoke on the Water”
This is a rough one. “Smoke on the Water” has some great moments, including a few satisfying kills, and it certainly advances the season’s plot. But it also has some of the dumbest moments of the entire series, more evidence that these writers are good at action, mystery, and thriller plots bu...
Read MoreCould Amazon’s James Bond Movies Be Good?
Is Amazon planning to make James Bond movies that might actually be… good? When the company – specifically Amazon MGM Studios – acquired creative control of the James Bond franchise from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and their company, EON Productions, many assumed they would turn it ...
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