Faced with steadily declining box office returns for their last few live-action Transformers movies, Hasbro and Paramount felt that the best course of action would be to return the franchise to its roots with an animated prequel. Sadly, despite mostly positive reviews from critics and word-of-mouth from those who bothered to go see it, the… Read More Truly More Than Meets the Eye | Transformers One (2024) 4K Ultra HD
Earlier this year, Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment launched a new sci-fi comic book called Void Rivals that, in a surprise twist not announced in advance, turned out to be the kick-off for a shared narrative continuity with Hasbro’s Transformers and G.I. Joe brands. The first few issues of that book featured cameo appearances by select… Read More Cybertron Will Die | Transformers Issue #01 (2023) Skybound Comic Book
Seven years have passed since the last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie played on cinema screens, which must mean it’s about time for a new theatrical reboot. The franchise reinvents itself once every decade or so, jumping back and forth between live-action and animation with each reworking. The latest iteration, called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:… Read More Look More Like Little Shreks to Me | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Although the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon petered out in the mid-1990s after the disaster of its third live-action movie and the end of its original TV cartoon, plans for another film that would circle back to animation were discussed throughout the early 2000s. At one point, John Woo was even supposed to direct it.… Read More Man, I Love Being a Turtle! | TMNT (2007) Blu-ray
Produced 34 years after the original, Disney’s reboot of Willow is a fair bit better than the film that inspired it. That’s something of a relief, if not exactly much of an achievement. Improvement or not, the new Willow is still a dull, derivative, and uninteresting fantasy adventure. Not every old movie deserves nostalgia. As… Read More The Fellowship of the Underwhelming | Willow (2022) Disney+ Series Premiere
Reboots of long-running horror franchises so rarely work out that it’s a wonder producers keep trying them. The 2009 Friday the 13th and 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street were both dead on arrival, and the Halloween series has turned into such a running joke of multiple reboots overwriting one another that no one can… Read More Put a Pin in It | Hellraiser (2022)
In just one episode, the television reboot of Interview with the Vampire (officially, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire) is already a significant improvement over the Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt movie adaptation from 1994. Admittedly, that may not be a very high bar to clear. Still, I have to admit to going in with some skepticism.… Read More Mortality Beats a Heavy Drum | Interview with the Vampire (2022) AMC Series Premiere
For a TV show whose premise is supposedly all about “putting right what once went wrong,” NBC’s new Quantum Leap reboot seems curiously uninterested in fixing any of the weaknesses or failures of the original series it’s based on. Ultimately, the show is exactly what I expected it to be from the ads. Unfortunately, I… Read More Oh Boy… | Quantum Leap (2022) NBC Series Premiere
The new Showtime drama series American Gigolo is technically neither a remake nor a sequel to the 1980 film by Paul Schrader, yet almost bends over backwards to tie itself to that movie in ways that don’t always make sense. With just one episode to judge by, I’m not exactly sure what the show wants… Read More Life Goes on Without Me | American Gigolo (2022) Showtime Series Premiere
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