We’re still over a year and three more Marvel movies away from Thor: Ragnarok (opens in new tab), and while we don’t know much about the Asgardian’s return to cinema screens the recently confirmed cast (opens in new tab) along with the potential inclusion of the popular Planet Hulk storyline …
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Plain whaling. Herman Melville’s American-lit epic Moby Dick has been adapted for the screen a gazillion times (approximately), so kudos to Ron Howard for taking a slightly different approach, even if it never quite matches the resonance of Ahab’s epic quest. Melville’s text is still front and centre though: Ben …
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The Holiday Road gets re-paved. Go compare… “I’ve never even heard of the original vacation,” says the nonplussed teenage son of Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) early on in this reboot of a 32-year-old cult classic. “Doesn’t matter,” replies his father, “the new vacation will stand on its own.” So important …
Read More »Red Dawn review
Patrick Swayze, star of the original Red Dawn , passed away in September 2009 in the same week this remake started shooting. How’s that for a bad omen? True to form, Dan Bradley’s re-do wound up being shelved as a result of MGM’s 2010 bankruptcy and re-appears now, three years …
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