By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Seasoned Kessel Runner (12 Parsec and Under Group) As the old adage goes, “all good things must come to an end.” In terms of the Lucasfilm saga that began one fine Spring eve in 1977, one could argue that its closing chapter is a welcome one, despite some…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editors and Requestor of One Ping Only, Please… In the cinematic world of political and techno-thrillers, very few films have managed to start a franchise that would endure decades on, not only featuring a smart and motivated anti-hero (read: Righteous Boy Scout) like Jack Ryan but also blessed with charismatic…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Fan of All Things Snowman You have to give it to Disney when it comes to market trends and the insatiable taste for sequels, keeping kids of all ages busy, giving tired moms a break as their brood remain fixed to their TV screens, even if just for an…
By Dominic Messier, Cyberdyne Critic Model Series 101 We heard the familiar advice, we ignored the common sense to keep running for our lives, yet here we are again, bearing witness to poor souls being hunted by an unstoppable foe hellbent on a singular mission to eradicate its target to ensure the downfall of…
By Dominic Messier, Founder,Editor and Film Writer An ambitious sequel to an otherwise imaginative live-action reinvention of the popular animated 1959 Disney classic, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil tries way too hard to come up with any original idea, only to stretch too thin and crash land into a messy, convoluted mess that would require a…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Of all film genres, the one that is arguably the hardest to pull of with any form of accuracy, is the war film. Many have been made, only a handful are recognized as masterpieces of their respective eras, testaments to every major military conflict of…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Honorary Sixth Beatle Given how saturated with explosive blockbusters and other CGI-laden megahits the summer film season can be, it’s always refreshing to see what counter-programming emerges as a healing balm to all the noise and busy visuals on the big screen. What’s even more unusual is a…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer There you have it: Now the highest grossing movie of all time, with 21 movies helping it build up a backstory for the ages, the oh-so-packed closing chapter Avengers: Endgame proves a well worn saying from the Star Trek universe, namely that the needs of the many outweigh…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Film Writer There’s a great and illuminating scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, where a certain fictitious chaotician named Ian Malcolm (brilliantly overplayed by Jeff Goldblum) confronts billionaire industrialist John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough) as to scientists being so busy with seeing if they could clone dinosaurs,…
By Dominic Messier, Founder,Editor and Film Writer The latest in a string of live-action adaptations of Disney’s own catalogue of animated classics, Dumbo is a frustrating double-edged sword, in that it does pull at the heartstrings while benefiting from director Tim Burton’s flair for the fantastic, though it does so at the expense of any…