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...
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...
Lifelong sibling con artists, Bloom (Brody, Hollywoodland) and Stephen (Ruffalo, Blindness), are nearing their last days working as a flamboyant, theatrical-styled team when Bloom announces that he’s ready to go legit (he wants an “unwritten life,” remarking...
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