There’s an unspoken rule in Hollywood: movies based on video games will almost always suck. Hell, just look at Uwe Boll’s filmography. However, Paul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of the highly popular Resident Evil video game has spawned an entire film franchise, with all 7 films raking in a combined $1.2 Billion worldwide. It’s a financial…
One of the most underrated horror movies to come out in 2020, Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space is a fairly faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story of the same name. Now, adapting anything from the granddaddy of cosmic horrors can be a bit difficult; after all, most of Lovecraft’s horror doesn’t come from…
Released in 2005, Avatar: The Last Airbender quickly became one of Nickelodeon’s most popular and most endearing animated masterpieces, spawning a sequel series, several scholarly articles, and most recently, the creation of Avatar Studios, a separate department within Nickelodeon that will produce various forms of media set within the Avatar world (it’s already shaping up…
People have always held a strange fascination for B-movies, so much so that entire sub-cultures dedicated to the study and appreciation of these sub-par-so-bad-its-good pieces of film have existed for as long as movies have existed. But what exactly constitutes a B-movie? During the Golden Age of Cinema back in the 30s and 40s, B-movies…
After The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 was released in 2015, the hype of The Hunger Games book and film series seemed to die down. Unlike franchises like Harry Potter which went on to create spin-offs of the magical universe and eventually became known as The Wizarding World franchise or The Twilight Saga franchise…
Books and films on fictional dystopias existed way before Suzanne Collins published The Hunger Games trilogy. At the time, books like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale depicted a world very different from our own that was not impossible if a certain chain of events happened. But unlike More’s Utopia or Bellamy’s Looking Backward,…
In my reviews of The Twilight Saga and how I mention the late ‘00s and early ‘10s trend of Hollywood taking young adult novels and turning it into films, you might know my position on studios and how they take the final book, split it into two movies, and milk the series for as much…
My favorite film in The Hunger Games series definitely has to be Catching Fire. In my last review of The Hunger Games, I talked about how the film was a good movie, but in terms of cutting out the more meaningful minutiae of the book source, could have done much better. The Hunger Games: Catching…
The late ‘00s and early ‘10s were a time of marrying Hollywood and popular young adult novels into movies that either flopped or did really well with its target audience. Aside from the obvious Harry Potter and The Twilight Saga series that were the arguable trailblazers for this type of movie, you also had contenders…
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is the final installment of The Twilight Saga film series and the last film you should watch in the order of Twilight movies. Unlike the first film which is packed with forgettable filler moments meant to pad the runtime, this movie was an improvement and had a…
