By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer After five action packed Mission Impossible films going back two decades, you’d think that the Impossible Missions Force would have run out of global crises, death-defying rescues and triple crosses in order to flush out their enemies… Well, you were wrong. But in a very good way….
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Given this decade’s thematic movement towards the live-action adaptation of animated works, mostly thanks to modern visual effects finally able to offer worthy results, does it really come as any surprise that the mighty House of Mouse, who by now not only still owns its own animated films, but Lucasfilm,…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer In the annals of filmmaking, there are numerous, excellent examples of how to offer a great, honest and rewarding musical biopic, one based on the most popular figures of modern music history. Take Oliver Stone’s The Doors, for example. How a director can aptly summarize years…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Neil Armstrong’s historical landing on the moon might have been a small step for man, but as far as well-rounded biopic features go, Damien Chazelle’s First Man is as stellar as they come. A remarkably insightful look into the personal life of one of the most…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Like myself, I’m sure many of you were raised to appreciated quality over quantity, whether it be big or small. While he’s not as big a deal (no pun intended) as his Avengers brethren, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man and his adventurous companions (I dare not call them…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer In the age of a Disney-owned Lucasfilm, the release of Star Wars spin-offs and prequels is a Catch-22 of sorts, in that legions of fans are ecstatic to see new stories based on a legendary film series, while at the same time risking market over-saturation that could…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer For most of us, and by most I speak of we late baby boomers to Gen-Xers, childhood was filled with a mixture of Saturday morning cartoons and a healthy dose of Jim Henson family-friendly products. Whether it was the primetime original Muppet Show, its Canadian cousin Fraggle Rock, the…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer As the opening salvo of the 2018 summer movie season, Avengers: Infinity War wasted no time destroying half the universe’s population — not to mention the global box office, to the tune of roughly 2 billion dollars globally, making it the fourth biggest box office gross of all…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Film Writer As a simplistic yet effective sci-fi horror project helmed by, adapted by and starring The Office star John Krasinski and real-life wife Emily Blunt, A Quiet Place eagerly jumps into the fray using the less-is-more approach, using the premise of an alien invasion of Earth by a sound-sensitive predatory…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer In a case of art imitating fake science, the latest installment in the Jurassic Park franchise seems to have copied too much of its own DNA, enough so that the original strand is no longer recognizable, nor viable. A messy hodge-podge of half-grown ideas frantically…