Ladies and Gentlemen, the huge summer blockbusters are finally upon us. This year we arrive in style with a film franchise that would make most people scratch their heads and wonder. With the third installment the franchise was on shaky ground, only bringing Vin Diesel back for a cameo. But, when Vin Diesel and Paul Walker signed on for the fourth installment, the franchise was back in business. The box office take for the fourth installment was more than double that of the third; the numbers only go up from there. To date the Fast & Furious franchise has raked in $1.6 billion worldwide. That only accounts for box office…
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G-S-T Review…Snitch
The nicest thing that can be said about Snitch, the film that commences Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s movie year, is that it’s no The Tooth Fairy. If we search for a silver lining, too, we can also rationalize that it can only be uphill from here. (And then we can cross our fingers.) Several years ago I might have opined that nobody really knew how best to utilize Johnson’s myriad talents, from his sense of humor to his obvious physicality, but even then I would have been lying; if you need to see the People’s Champion at his best, just watch The Other Guys or The Rundown and marvel at…
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G-S-T Trailer Round-Up: Drive Blue, Pain & Bay, and Apocalypse
The Mayans may have been wrong about the end of the world, but don’t worry– the Go, See, Talk! Trailer Round-Up is here with two visions of Armageddon to slake your thirst for wanton destruction. Of the pair, the first isn’t a literal Ragnarok, but rather a localized catastrophe that devours an entire city; then again, when your film is set against a backdrop of explosions, crumbling buildings, and rapidly rising social anarchy, maybe that counts as the wholesale destruction of a cinematic world. Either way, Aftershock looks harsh, nasty, and bonkers in all the right ways, though I’ll take bets on how long Eli Roth actually survives in the film (and on…