All cinemas from Boxing Day They say: Wonder Woman polevaults across history to the 1980s, where she finds two new evil adversaries in Max Lord and Cheetah. We say: In a year where superhero fans have been starved of anything resembling a spectacle, the most popular screen superheroine of all time steps up to save the day. Over the entire summer, WW1984 is the only old-school blockbuster steamrolling into cinemas. Word coming in from the premiere earlier this week is that both Gal Gadot and the franchise as a whole have really lifted their game here. Will be a huge hit.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who enjoy watching Milla Jovovich kick the crap out of supernatural beasties and those who don’t. If you already know which one you are, then you know exactly how you’ll receive her latest film,
Monster Hunter. The film, based on the popular Capcom video game, reunites Jovovich with her husband/director Paul W.S. Anderson. The duo previously made 6 films in the
Resident Evil franchise, offering up stylish and schlocky B-movie delights over the course of nearly two decades.
Luckily for me, as a connoisseur of
Resident Evil and the Jovovich/Anderson oeuvre, I was primed for
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Here s what s playing DEC. 18-24 at area movie theaters and streaming on the virtual cinemas offered by non-profit, year-round, independent cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics.
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On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis, this documentary tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic â from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandpa with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These raw and intimate stories bear witness to the death and rebirth of a city under a 76-day lockdown, and to the human resilience that pers
Monster Hunter Finds the Fun and the Action But Misses a Third Act
Epic video game action meets 1974 s The Land That Time Forgot in the latest from the director of Resident Evil.
Sony
Paul W.S. Anderson‘s
Resident Evil (2003) and its subsequent franchise, but most fail to find the balance in bringing a game to a new medium. Cater too much to the gamers, and you risk alienating newcomers to your world. Carry over too little, though, and you’re likely to upset the fans who made the game a hit in the first place.
Monster Hunter is Anderson’s third go at a video game adaptation he also directed 1995’s