Movies and video games are both enjoyable activities. But historically speaking, when these two mix, the results are often disastrous. While there is no shortage of contenders for this “worst-of” list (Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, etc.), Warcraft is certainly a notch above of the bunch. Despite sci-fi mastermind Duncan Jones’
Author: Kevin Tan
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Just The 3 Of Us
Essentially, the marketing strategy of Star Cinema’s latest offering, Just the 3 of Us, boiled down to three names: undisputed rom-com king John Lloyd Cruz, back-to-back M.M.F.F. Best Actress Jennylyn Mercado, and box-office director Cathy Garcia-Molina. It was only a matter of time before these two top-billing actors worked together
The Angry Birds Movie
When the phenomenal game Angry Birds was first launched, children (and adults) of all ages were glued to their smartphones. The 2010 highest-grossing mobile game paved the way for a series of animated shorts and five years later is Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly’s The Angry Birds Movie. You may be
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
2016, so far, can be marked as the year of sequels and reboots. While some of which are well-crafted, the majority are either disappointing or simply unnecessary. Falling on the latter category is The Huntsman: Winter’s War, which serves as both a prequel and a sequel (a “sprequel”, if you
The Jungle Book
To those who still hold any degree of skepticism for Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book—Disney’s live-action adaptation of the Rudyard Kiplingclassic—I say just sing along to “Forget about your worries and your strife…” That’s a guaranteed earworm from this really good film. Complete with splendid sound design and flabbergasting CGI
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Sequel after sequel, it is a struggle to pledge my allegiance to this franchise that once had the potential but has now consistently gone downhill. For the obvious reason of milking the Divergent franchise, Allegiant is unnecessarily split into two parts. There is no shame in that, really, but what
London Has Fallen
London Has Fallen is a classic example of a no-one-asked-for sequel trying to ride on the coattails of its predecessor’s box-office success. The film, a follow-up to the 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, features a heavier sense of gravity due to it escalating the conflict to a city-wide scale and also
The Finest Hours
The Finest Hours depicts events that are dubbed as “the most daring rescue mission in U.S. coast guard history.” I took this with a grain of salt as mereover-exaggeration, a marketing tactic. And yet upon seeing the film, and absorbing this new-found insight of how grave the dangers coast guards
Strap on them proton jackets: The trailer for the ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot is here!
It took us a while to get here, so here’s a quick backstory: Originally planned as a sequel to the ‘80s classic, Ghostbusters III was meant to feature a mixed cast of the old gang and the new, as a way of “passing the torch” to the next generation. The
The Revenant
The four-way battle of man vs. man vs. nature vs. himself has never been construed in the way The Revenant does in this Oscar-nominated epic survival film. Once again, Alejandro González Iñárritu blesses us with a masterclass visual poetry as he cements his spot into one of the world’s visionary
Gods of Egypt
Amid the huge #OscarsSoWhite controversy of The 88th Academy Awards, timing could not have been any worse for the release of Gods of Egypt – an Egyptian fantasy film heavily studded with a Caucasian cast. Such “Hollywood whitewashing”, which encourages critics and viewers to sharpen their knives, has been discussed
Joy
From the looks of it, Director David O. Russell plans to make an anthology of movies with his Lawrence-Cooper-De Niro squad after all. We’ve previously seen him working with the trio in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013). 2015 marks their third collaboration in Joy. Who can accuse him
The 5th Wave
With the conclusion of profitable franchises such as Twilight and The Hunger Games, and with Divergent and The Maze Runner series following suit, Hollywood is undoubtedly scrambling to find the next big young adult franchise. Picking up late in the race, Sony has finally decided to jump onto the saturated genre and take this journey
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Hollywood biographical war pictures are used as devices to mark significant events of terrorism, a form through which we comprehend accounts of reality and glimpse on the American psyche. Over the last few years we have Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Lone Survivor (2013), and American Sniper (2014), to name only
Macbeth
Macbeth, the timeless play by William Shakespeare, is retold once more in film, this time in the hands of director Justin Kurzel. The “laws” of cinema establish that such classic pieces get new adaptations every five years or so, inevitably subjecting these rehashes to the “make-or-break” category. The film opens
