I waited 19 years for a sequel to Unbreakable, and I only found out I was getting one a few years ago when I saw Split. I actually liked Glass. I say actually because so many people turned on M. Night Shyamalan again after only just welcoming him back a couple movies ago. I loved […]
Well, I didn’t think it could get any more wonderful than seeing Paddington 2 on the big screen. It turns out it looks even lovelier in high definition on Blu-ray. I’ve visited London and never seen it this bright. It’s a high definition idealization with the bright yellow Brown family home, carnival colors, and even […]
Like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and original Evil Dead, there is a question of just how good you’d want The Dead Next Door to look. The movie was famously filmed on 8mm and that has been part of its legend as a miracle of a completed zombie film. Fortunately, the new Arrow video Blu-ray does […]
As Franchise Fred, I’m hesitant about reboots. When necessary, they can be as good as Casino Royale or Batman Begins, but every time there’s a reboot, it means the franchise has given up on further sequels. Fortunately, I’m not too hung up on continuity for the Transporter series. As long as there’s a British guy […]
This review originally appeared on Nuke the Fridge: The Avengers: Age of Ultron falls into the mode of sequels darker than the original. I’m not sure why they keep making sequels this way since no one seems to like a darker sequel (except for Franchise Fred!), but this is Joss Whedon’s riff on the trope of […]