Tag: Jeremy Irons
REVIEW: The Beekeeper (2024)
I’m not going to pretend The Beekeeper is a great movie, because it isn’t. It’s got less character work than your standard Allstate commercial, the acting – outside of a couple of performances – is just below mediocre, the narrative is thin as a shoestring, and the admittedly interesting ...
Read MoreThe Beekeeper Trailer is Classic Statham
2024 is starting off the right way, with what looks like a hard-hitting Jason Statham action movie, as today, MGM released a trailer for The Beekeeper. Statham stars as a mysterious loner named Mr. Clay, whose kindly old neighbor commits suicide after falling for a phishing scam that cleans out her ...
Read MoreZack Snyder Debuts Superman Clip at Justice Con
We finally have a look at Superman in his black suit. Midway through Zack Snyder’s panel at Justice Con – an online convention put together by fans to celebrate the Snyder Cut of Justice League – the filmmaker showed off a second clip from his long-awaited cut of the film, in which we get our ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9, “See How They Fly”
HBO’s official description of “See How They Fly,” the Watchmen season (series?) finale, highlights one of the larger sticking points with the sequel series: “Everything ends. For real this time.” In trying to carve out a reason for itself to exist, Watchmen the show undermines the original...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 8 “A God Walks into Abar”
“A God Walks into Abar” fills in plenty of Watchmen’s blanks, particularly the ones last week’s episode created when it revealed that Angela’s husband Cal is actually Doctor Manhattan. There are still elements that don’t make sense, and Angela remains a flat character, but it’s an ente...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 7 “An Almost Religious Awe”
If nothing else, “An Almost Religious Awe” assures us that Watchmen is completely off its rocker. This show is bugnuts crazy, and while I imagine Damon Lindelof and the rest of the people behind it think making everything about race is a shortcut to gravitas and intellectualism, the lunacy and s...
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