Although the new version vastly improves upon the initial incarnation, there is still an underlying penchant to make everything as dark and violent as it could possibly be.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 immediately establishes its tone with a riotously funny opening sequence that features Baby Groot (voiced again by Vin Diesel) dancing, or it could be prancing depending on your temperament, to Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr. Blue Sky” as the rest of the Guardians battle a giant monster with tentacles who is tearing apart their ship. It’s a great sequence that is no...[Read More]
Hello again, dear readers. After a longer-than-anticipated absence, I’m back, and I hope all of you have seen Godzilla by now. We’re truly in the summer movie season as this point, with big movies like X-Men: Days of Future Past and Maleficent coming out week after week, and last Friday saw the release of the Tom Cruise-starring sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow. In the meantime, this o...[Read More]
It’s the last week of February, dear readers, and that means that, hopefully, spring will finally be on its way before long. And that also means we’re almost out of the cinematic dumping ground that is the beginning of the year, so people who want to see something good at the theater will have other options than merely seeing The Lego Movie again. But in the meantime, trailers are cont...[Read More]