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The Flash and Elemental are Massive Bombs
Dads stayed away from the movies this Father’s Day weekend – along with everyone else. Two big movie premiered on Friday: Warner Bros./DC’s The Flash and Disney/Pixar’s Elemental. Neither was tracking well; The Flash was predicted to bring in $70 million, while Elemental was looking at a $35...
Read MoreREVIEW: Elemental (2023)
I haven’t been excited for Pixar’s Elemental. I’m a lifelong Pixar fan, and for years, their releases were an anticipated highlight of every year. I always saw whatever Pixar was putting out for my birthday, as they tended to come out in June. However, I knew immediately that Elem...
Read MoreREVIEW: Extraction 2 (2023)
Extraction 2 lives up to its promise; it’s an exhilarating action movie that manages to top its excellent predecessor in both suspense and spectacle. It also features three-dimensional characters who feel like real people with human motivations and desires amid the fantastical action sequences, an...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash (2023)
I’m not sure I’d call The Flash a mixed bag; that implies a fairly equal good-to-bad ratio, and The Flash is more bad than good by a wide margin. And what’s bad is abysmal, not only embracing many of the grating modern superhero movie tropes but hooking them up to rockets and shooting them int...
Read MoreKevin Smith Teases Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever
DC movies have more alternate cuts than Blade Runner (well, maybe). On his Fat Man Beyond podcast – formerly Fat Man on Batman, which was a much better title, although apparently, they had to change it for legal reasons – Kevin Smith told his co-host, Marc Bernardin, that he has a copy of the �...
Read MoreWarner Bros. Wants Christopher Nolan Back
Warner Bros. is looking to mend fences with Christopher Nolan. Variety ran an article about Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, the new co-CEOs and co-chairpeople of Warner Bros. Film Group, and while the whole piece is great and, if everything pans out the way the pair and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Davi...
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