THE REVIEW CORNER

Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, and Ron Perlman Directed by: Guillermo del Toro Screenplay by: Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro      So, it seems like we have yet another apocalypse movie.  And this time, it seems like the threat is so severe that not even the Transformers will be able to stop it.  Time for a new weapon then.      It's the not to far distant future and the world is once again coming to an end.  There's been a portal found deep in the Pacific Ocean called the Breach.  Giant monsters known as Kaiju are coming through the portal and terrorizing massive cities all around the Pacific Ocean.  Tanks and jets aren't tremendously effective against these monsters.  And so the Jaeger program is born.  The Jaegers are giant fighting robots controlled by two pilots whose minds and memories are blended together in a "drift" which allows them to control the robot.   ...

Starring:  Sandra Bullock ,  Melissa McCarthy , and  Demián Bichir   Directed by: Paul Feig Screenplay by: Katie Dippold      So it seems as if we have another cop comedy duo.  This time, our main characters happen to be women, so at least something is different.      FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) does her job in a rather arrogant and uptight fashion, but she's always closing cases.  She's one of the best special agents in her field and has closed more cases than anyone else in her unit.  There's an opportunity for her to get promoted to a desk job, but she's going to have to prove to her boss that she can handle the job.  So, she's tasked to bring down a drug lord in Boston.        That's when she meets Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a detective for the Boston Police Department.  Mullins is (I guess I'll just say it bluntly) insane.  She causes trouble prett...

Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, and Daniella Kertesz Directed by: Marc Forster Screenplay by:  Matthew Michael Carnahan   and Drew Goddard Based on the novel by Max Brooks      The zombie apocalypse strikes again!!!!!      Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is a United Nations employee at the time of the breakout of a disease that turns people into ferocious zombies.  Nobody knows where the disease started or how to stop it.  So, it's up to Gerry to travel all across the world to find safe zones and figure out how to stop this plague from destroying humanity altogether.        For those of you who are loyal readers of this blog, you know by now that I'm a fan of concept, the basic idea of the story.  Sometimes a concept can be really bad, yet turns out to be an incredible story once the concept of the story is in context of the film.  In other words, a good telling of the story can make for an incredible film...