Mary Poppins Returns Is Far Too Familiar Given Its Unpredictable Lead Character
Mary Poppins Returns kicks off in 1935, twenty-five years after the first Mary Poppins movie, with Michael Banks…
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Aquaman Is 2018’s Answer To G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. That’s A Compliment.
Aquaman has been given a bum rap in American pop culture. Because Family Guy and The Big Bang…
Aquaman Comes To Shore With $67 Million Bow As Competing Family Movies Bumblebee & Mary Poppins Underperform On Opening Weekends
I’ve been oh so curious for months now to see how this particular weekend would…
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Launches Holiday Season Box Office In Style While The Mule Has Solid Bow And Mortal Engines Falls Into A Ditch
Though December is known for its financially successful family movies, it’s typically not a place…
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Is Pure Cinematic Joy
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse feels like a movie just made for me. The heavy usage of…
Mortal Engines Is Nonsense But More Often Than Not, It’s Enjoyable Nonsense
Mortal Engines is as imaginative as it is messy. Based on a series of books by…
Ben Mendelsohn Excels In An Otherwise Average Take On The Robin Hood Mythos
Robin Hood has been a fixture of movie theater screens for exactly 110 years now,…
A Pair Of Animated Movies Top One Last Weekend Before The Christmas Rush Begins
The second awkward post-Thanksgiving pre-Christmas weekend of 2018 was an extremely quiet one, in fact,…
The Bolder Traits of Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Can’t Overcome Its More Tired Tendencies
Andy Serkis may have not planned to fixate his entire career around motion-capture performances but…
The Front Runner Is Lackluster Fare Desperately In Need Of Some Personality
The Front Runner is a movie after Dragnet’s heart in that it’s very much a…