ANOTHER SIDE, ANOTHER STORY In 2022, director Baz Luhrmann introduces the world of visual style of filmmaking with the release of Elvis. The movie, which starred Austin Butler and Tom Hanks as the main headliners of the feature, presented a biopic drama that centers around the life of musical sensation Elvis Presley, his stardom, his fall from grace, and
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A WELL-ACTED DRAMA THAT STALLS MORE THAN ACCELERATES The appeal and fascination of sport motorcars has had an everlasting appeal to many for many different reasons. The adrenaline rush of high-octane speeds, the mechanisms and gears of what happens “under the hood”, the elation feeling of escapism from reality, and the powerful thrust of racing. Motorheads and other car
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A SAFE “COMFORT FOOD” ROM-COM ENDEAVOR With Hollywood studios investing money in big-budgeted tentpole features or in smaller scale artistic films (ones that are worthy of Oscar / award nominations), the subgenre of romantic comedies is left somewhere in the middle of those two extreme juggernaut film genres. Naturally, romantic comedies movies, which are both a subgenre to both
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“I WISH… FOR A DEEPER MOVIE” In the year of 2023, The Walt Disney Company celebrates its 100th anniversary, honoring the birth of everything that studio has been known for as part of the endearing and imaginative legacy. A century of colorful tales, magic, storytelling, and great host of other properties and mediums have paved the way throughout the
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A FILM OF “PURE IMAGINATION” MAGIC Considered as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th Century”, famed children’s author Roald Dahl has delighted and enchanted readers for generations, capturing childlike wonder and imagination within his releases. One of his most famous publications novels comes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was released in 1964, and
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I learned that the Gods of Olympus are real and sometimes they have children with humans called half-bloods. We’re pretty much like anyone else you’d meet but with a few notable differences. We live in the only place that is safe for our kind… until now.” as Jason’s Movie Blog returns to the cinematic world of Riordan’s best-selling novel for
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If your son is the thief, I will send him to the depths of Tartarus. He must return the bolt to me in 14 days, by midnight on the summer solstice…. or there will be war” as Jason’s Movie Blog goes back to Greek Myths for the “cinematic flashback” review of 2010’s Percy Jack & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END… The Fast and the Furious franchise has been quite a journey down a path of the familiar tropes and ridiculous “balls to walls” zaniness through its high-octane action stunts. Debuting back in 2001 with the original The Fast & the Furious, viewers were introduced to the world of underground street racing with Paul Walker’s
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A COLORFUL, YET A WEAK (AND TIRESOME) THREEQUEL Back in 2016, DreamWorks Animation released Trolls, a colorful and musically charged animated feature that was based off the Trolls dolls toy figures (created by Thomas Dam). Directed by Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn, the film, which starred the voices of Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and host of several other
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UNITE OR FALL…. The Transformers live-action movie franchise has been somewhat of a “slippery slope” since it began back in 2007. Overseeing by director Michael Bay, the cinematic saga (based on Hasbro’s classic toys line of “robots in disguise”) has been called many things, including loud. bloated, slightly racist / stereotyping, nonsensical, too silly, repetitive, mindless, etc. However, despite these glaring
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