Upon exiting the theater after Ready Player One, my immediate takeaway was that “they don’t make films like this anymore.” Based on the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One takes place in the near-future of 2045, a dystopian landscape where the earth has become ridden by global warming,
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Star Trek Beyond
Upon the launch of the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond – a fast and furious (sorry) ninety-five seconds, frantically scored to Sabotage by the Beastie Boys – the Internet did what it did best: it overreacted. The general concern was that JJ Abrams’ iterations of the beloved franchise
Ice Age: Collision Course
The Ice Age franchise, now roughly 15 years old, started with the journey of Manny, Sid and Diego rescuing a human infant back in 2002. Since then, these mammals have been subjected to a meltdown, a dinosaur invasion, and a continental drift. By then, you’d think it’d be best for
An intergalactic orgy of comedians in ‘Absolutely Anything’
What if a band of conspiratorial aliens gives you the power to conjure anything? Well, this is the trailblazing theme of Simon Pegg (Hector and the Search for Happiness) and Kate Beckinsale’s (Underworld) newest film “Absolutely Anything.” Pegg as a disenchanted schoolteacher who brawls to pact with the events that successively
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
After nearly three years since its stellar Ghost Protocol, the Mission: Impossible franchise comes back with its latest, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and the stakes are never the higher, both for the franchise, and its lead super agent, Ethan Hunt, played by the indefatigable and unstoppable Tom Cruise. For
