Grease 2 finally gets HD respect with its first ever Blu-ray release for the film’s 40th anniversary. VHS kids were among the first to discover Grease 2 was a fun twist on the T-Birds and Pink Girls. DVD may have been the first time they ever got to see the full movie in widescreen. Now […]
One of the biggest announcements that came from Nintendo at E3 last year was the teaser trailer for Metroid Prime 4 for the Nintendo Switch. Since then, little to no detail has been revealed about anything else regarding the sequel to the Metroid Prime trilogy. For those that need a refresher, one of Nintendo’s […]
Finding Dory is a compassionate portrait of mental illness for families with young ones. Dory has short term memory loss according to the movies, but really this is the Memento disease. It teaches kids you still have value and can achieve things in life with conditions like this, and could lay the groundwork for families […]
Disney has had a hot streak. Zootopia, Jungle Book and Civil War all winners. Alice Through the Looking Glass may end up overshadowed by them, but it’s still great. I’m surprised Lewis Carroll didn’t write more sequels. Wonderland has infinite possibilities. Go back to that well! But hopefully the movies can visit Wonderland more than […]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is sort of the sequel you get when you give the director of the grindhouse original some resources, but not really because it’s still Cannon Films. Even with Cannon, it’s clearly more resources than Tobe Hooper had on the 16mm original. On Blu-ray the sequel looks like a polished studio […]
WWE Studios has been continuing the series of many of their films with sequels to The Marine, See No Evil and even 12 Rounds. Now WWE Studios has produced The Condemned 2 starring WWE Superstar Randy Orton. The Condemned starred Steve Austin as a convict battling other prisoners to the death in a battle royale. […]
Boy, 20th Century Fox is getting really creative with their Blu-ray releases, between the Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza set and the Home Alone paint can set. It is the 25th anniversary of the original Home Alone. God, has it really been 25 years? Macaulay Culkin must be older than me now. The big appeal of […]
Franchise Fred approves of the basic sequelization of The Maze Runner. It’s a real out of the frying pan, into the fryer situation where the rescue turns out to be worse than being stuck in the maze. An introduction to other survivors suggests other mazes we never got to see. The scorch is a bigger, […]
Fred Wolf and I had even more to talk about than Franchise Fred. It’s rare enough that you meet someone else with the name Fred, so much that there is a Fred Club. At least Fred Willard once told me there was. Wolf returns to cowrite and direct Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser premiering […]