Halloween takes a bold but successful move. For a well established and beloved franchise, it is a brave move to undo and wipe-away all of the movies that followed the 1978 original and treat this film as the only true sequel. … Continue reading Horror Month: Halloween (2018) Review
There is a great idea at the centre of Halloween II that doesn’t quite work. Unlike many other sequels, especially ones with a gap as large between movies as this one, Halloween begins almost immediately after the last film. The Halloween … Continue reading Horror Month: Halloween II (1981) Review
Unlike the first movie which kept it’s ties to the video-game it was based on very loose, Resident Evil Apocalypse at least attempts to make better links and some of which are actually fairly successful. This means that alongside Milla Jovovich’s returning Alice … Continue reading Zombie Month: Resident Evil Apocalypse (2004) Review
Pixar have made sequels to movies that don’t necessarily lend themselves naturally to a franchise but it has been far too long since we revisited the Parr family. The potential for a sequel about a family of superheroes who mix … Continue reading Pixar Month: Incredibles 2 (2018) Review
There was a sense after Cars 2 that the Cars franchise should be put to rest. Money will always win out though and Cars was given a third outing and another attempt to repeat what wasn’t particularly a grand opening … Continue reading Pixar Month: Cars 3 (2017) Review
Pixar have a mixed record with sequels. At their best they can develop characters and stories, moving the forward and developing the core concept perfectly (see. Toy Story) however at their worst they feel like cheap cash-grabs and you wonder why … Continue reading Pixar Month: Finding Dory (2016) Review
Pixar could be accused of creating a cheap cash-grab sequel with Cars 2. Cars wasn’t the greatest of Pixar movies and certainly wasn’t critically acclaimed but it did make a huge amount of money, particularly in merchandise, so a sequel seemed … Continue reading Pixar Month: Cars 2 (2011) Review
Most animated sequels struggle to find the spark of the original. Most of the time the original story is so insular that it is difficult to justify a sequel and even more difficult to put a coherent, logical story in place. … Continue reading Pixar Month: Toy Story 2 (1999) Review
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is arguably the ultimate Indiana Jones movie. There is an ancient, religious relic to chase, an adventure that takes the hero cross-country, Nazis to fight and a temples to raid complete with booby-traps and puzzles … Continue reading Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Review
There is a clue in the title of the sequel (prequel) to Raiders of the Lost Ark: Temple of Doom is silly. There was something perfectly supernatural about Raiders of the Lost Ark that is lacking from Temple of Doom. The … Continue reading Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (1984) Review
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