Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Set ten years after the events in the first entry, John Boyega (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) stars as Jake Pentecost, the son of Pacific Rim‘s hero, Stacker Pentecost, who sacrificed his life in the...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published March 25, 2018 · Last modified July 11, 2018
Set ten years after the events in the first entry, John Boyega (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) stars as Jake Pentecost, the son of Pacific Rim‘s hero, Stacker Pentecost, who sacrificed his life in the...
Directed by star John Krasinski, his second such effort, The Hollars is yet another well-meaning dramedy about yet another financially and emotionally sulking big-city resident who returns small-town home to his dysfunctional family to care for...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 7, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2019
If I could get the featured earworm ditty, “Everything is Awesome” to stop cycling incessantly in my head, I’d be able to put my imaginative mind to better use at this moment. Reviews don’t...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 13, 2013 · Last modified July 5, 2018
Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) homage to the old Japanese films featuring Kaiju (literal translation: “strange beast”, or the Americanized, “giant monster”), which were sci-fi flicks about grotesque, building-sized creatures who...
A step down from the delightfulness of Monsters Inc., but still a delight nonetheless, Monsters University may lack for the more affecting aspects of its predecessor, but taken as a fun, cute, comic film for all ages,...
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