Dwayne Johnson

How do you make formulaic plots and stories attractive and vital? It’s a question director/co-writer Jared Stern and co-writer John Whittington have answered with DC League of Super-Pets, their cinematic spin on the “disparate characters come together to defeat evil” children’s film chestnut. Focusing on a ragged team of pet store rejects who suddenly find […]

Right away, Jungle Cruise throws you off with an altered Magic Kingdom logo underscored with a repeated E-G-B-E-B-G note sequence which suddenly becomes all too familiar once more instrumentation is added. Then you find yourself wondering, “What the hell is Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ doing as the musical score of a Disney flick?!” Everything about […]

The trailer for the hotly-anticipated Fast & Furious spinoff starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham has just dropped, and it looks… AWESOME. Both of their characters have been surprise game-changers since Johnson’s Luke Hobbs was welcomed into the Fast & Furious pantheon in Fast Five and Statham’s post-credits appearance in Furious 6. Furious […]

Buckle up, kids. A new Fast and Furious movie skids its way into theaters this weekend, and ain’t nothin’ changed – this eighth installment in the franchise doesn’t let off the gas one bit. Huge respect goes to this outrageous series for maintaining – and since Fast Five, improving – the franchise’s death-defying, high-flying quality […]

There’s a running theme throughout all of the latter-day Walt Disney Animation Studios films which binds them all together: empowerment, be it of the female variety, the disenfranchised, or the shunned. Moana is no different, and it once again proves why The Mouse House truly leads the way in creating valuable, universal entertainment. From the […]

Oh, how late producer Irwin Allen would have enjoyed San Andreas. How would he have not? Allen produced some of the greatest disaster films in the 1970s, such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, carving out his own niche and establishing the modern-day disaster film genre. Eventually, as all things do, quality is […]