I can imagine the pitch meeting for Beast went something like this: "we're going to have Idris Elba fight a giant lion...". Then the room got quiet as the studio execs at Universal went deep into thought. "That's a brilliant idea", and then they passed off the $36 million budget for the film. Beast
Even if you love a good creature feature, and as impressive as the CGI, sound design and music were, they're just not compelling enough to sit through 93 minutes of tedious yammering.
Wow is the first thing that came to mind when I saw the trailer at NYCC 2021! Of course, this 99-minute film will keep you visually glued to your screen with the new, all CGI animation. But, more importantly, the story completes Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. Final Trailer Courtesy of Crunchyroll
Day Shift is the directorial debut of stunt coordinator and martial arts expert J.J. Perry… and just like with John Wick, the first-time director takes his knowledge of stunt work and puts it on full display. You can see the inspiration this horror comedy has taken from that Keanu Reeves-led
Lost in the Reel's video review for Inu-Oh In 2017, I saw a little film called The Night is Short, Walk on Girl and fell in love. Though I haven't seen any of director Masaaki Yuasa's other works, that film alone made me excited to check out his newest creation Inu-Oh. IndieWire has called
Lost in the Reel's video Ranking of July 2022 Movies Welcome to a new THS exclusive, where I cover each New Release film that I saw the month prior. All of these movies were either released In Theaters, on a Streaming Platform, or on PVOD in July 2022. The films will be ranked from the WORST to the
As a fan of Jo Koy, I have been excited about Easter Sunday since first learning about it. Who doesn’t love a wacky family holiday movie? Easter Sunday is about a man named Jo, he’s a divorceé as well as a father to a teenage son and is just trying to give him more than he ever had
Hello everyone, your friendly neighborhood Professor Hulk, here. I’m about to drop some knowledge of some exciting stuff in the film and TV world. I've recently been in contact with an inside source who has detailed more of Warner Bros. Discovery's plans for a post-merger DC world. I'll run
The Sheep Detectives is a towering testament of how powerful animated stories can be when done right. A genuine crowdpleaser, the film is sure to warm and break your heart, wrestling with richly textured explorations of death and grief, lost and found families, and the necessity of memory.
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.
