Mortal Kombat II was released over the weekend to the best reviews of the IP's movie franchise (65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), a solid audience score on the aggregator site (89 percent), and a franchise-best opening weekend at the box office. For an R-rated series that has always felt a bit niche,
If you feel inclined to check out Rotten Tomatoes before heading out to see Mortal Kombat II this weekend, you might be surprised to see that critics have surprisingly responded positively compared to the usual assessment that video game movies receive from them. Currently, the film holds a 68
The first Mortal Kombat movie was fine, it did the job, it gave us some classic characters from the games, but there was something missing from it. That something that was missing is in Mortal Kombat II and then some. Maybe its the addition of Johnny Cage? Or is it something else entirely? But most
Video game adaptations have had a long reputation of not receiving the best responses from critics or moviegoers. Back in 1993, Super Mario Bros. was a critical and box office failure of epic proportions, and just a year later, 1994's Street Fighter, while more financially successful, still
If cinematic universes are trading cards, then Karl Urban has quietly built one of the most stacked decks in Hollywood. From The Lord of the Rings to The Boys, with pit stops in Star Trek and Dredd, Urban’s résumé reads like a tour through fandom’s greatest hits. Now, with Mortal Kombat 2, he
Mortal Kombat is perhaps one of the most famous fighting game series ever made. Or rather, you might say that it's more infamous. If you've seen clips or even screenshots of the game, you might notice that it's a bit violent. Okay, let's be real: it's extremely and graphically violent. The
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Get ready for Johnny Cage and the events of Mortal Kombat II. Check out the new trailer for the film below! From New Line Cinema comes the latest high-stakes installment in the blockbuster video game franchise in all its brutal glory, Mortal Kombat II. This time, the fan favorite champions—now
James Wan is one of the most influential horror filmmakers of our era. He created an iconic horror franchise with Saw, merely his second feature film, complete with a new horror legend in the antagonist Jigsaw. Six years later he launched one supernatural horror franchise in Insidious, whose films
Remaking Faces of Death is a hell of a move in 2026. Although, this movie doesn't really remake that diabolical film from 1978, it instead takes inspiration from it and it even exists in the universe that this film takes place in. So getting that out of the way so that the horror "diehards" who
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
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The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
