Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "shared universe"

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ** (2019, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby) – Movie Review

Director David Leitch presents Hobbs & Shaw (2019), a spin-off movie that has little connection with the Fast & Furious series, and is basically a stand-alone action thriller. A series hijacker, it is Vin Diesel’s […]

Aug, 01

Annabelle Comes Home * (2019, Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Katie Sarife, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson) – Movie Review

Screenplay-writer/director Gary Dauberman’s 2019 horror thriller Annabelle Comes Home is a weak and cheesy Conjuring Universe episode, starring Mckenna Grace as Judy, the young daughter of Lorraine and Ed Warren. The Seventies demonology couple take possession […]

Jul, 14

Spider-Man: Far from Home *** (2019, Tom Holland, Samuel L Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Zendaya) – Movie Review

Spider-Man: Far from Home is laid back, light hearted, and light weight. It mixes sentimentality with goofy teen laughs, sitcom soap opera and endless CGI action to polished, pleasant, painless effect. They have cleverly made […]

Jul, 04

Men in Black: International * (2019, Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson) – Movie Review

Director F Gary Gray’s Men in Black: International (2019) is a weak and witless reboot, dumping the original cast, in which an American woman (Tessa Thompson) somehow pushes her way into the Men in Black […]

Jun, 14

Pokémon Detective Pikachu *** (2019, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, voice of Ryan Reynolds) – Movie Review

Director Rob Letterman’s teen action adventure comedy Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) is much better than expected thanks to inventive scripting and a lively atmosphere, throwing in anything and everything that could possibly make this crazy […]

May, 11

The Curse of La Llorona ** (2019, Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez) – Movie Review

Director Michael Chaves’s 2019 supernatural horror thriller The Curse of La Llorona is a modestly scary and entertaining spin off from The Conjuring universe. It does not have a lot of credibility – how could […]

May, 05

Shazam! (2019, Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel) – Movie Review

The 2019 DC Comics’ family superhero movie Shazam! is as silly and lame as they come, frustratingly unfunny and unamusing, not to mention totally unexciting. Asher Angel is reasonable company as junior hero Billy Batson, […]

Apr, 21

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