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After 42 years, Creed II is the eighth film in the incredibly long-running Rocky franchise and the second focused on Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan). Well that is a milestone and possibly some kind of […]
The second installment of J K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series set in the Wizarding World again stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Redmayne’s shambling, mumbling performance is dull, but not as dull as the movie, which […]
Producer-director Brian Yuzna’s 1992 Return of the Living Dead: Part III is a useful, low-budget ($2,000,000 ) third episode, in which a young army brat, Curt (J Trevor Edmond), gets hold of the zombie-making chemical […]
Richard Roundtree recreates the role of hardboiled Harlem private eye John Shaft in director Gordon Parks’ s 1972 blaxploitation action crime thriller Shaft’s Big Score!, the tip-top first sequel to the enormously successful 1971 original […]
Director Hal Needham’s 1980 action comedy sequel Smokey and the Bandit II (aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again) brings Burt Reynolds back from the 1977 hit original Smokey and the Bandit as truck driver […]
Director Ted Kotcheff’s modest but diverting enough 1965 drama Life at the Top is the soap-opera-style sequel to Room at the Top (1959) that, even while it entertains, misses the quality and bitter taste of the […]
The bad news is this is the first weekend ever where eight of the top ten films at the box office were sequels – and this is one of them. At least Mamma Mia! Here We […]