The Magnificent Seven is trademark Western thrills (safely) done right. That’s not to say Antoine Fuqua’s Kurosawa remake does anything memorably inventive, but this is Wild West action at its most digestible. All the clichés appear – guy gets thrown through window, guy gets shot into casket, multiple guys shoot from the tops of buildings – but it’s never dull or unwatchable. In fact, Fuqua does right to veer towards the realm of camp, which is the only way I can describe Vincent D’Onofrio’s performance. Read More...
Rubee Lana posted a video on TikTok and YouTube in 2023 and the viral videos caused people to worry about her well-being. The TikToker has established a huge following on the short-form video medium for both her dance and faith-related videos. She currently has a massive following of more than 5 million people as of the time of writing.
On August 7, 2023, Rubee shared a little clip, leaving her followers inquisitive as to what had actually occurred. Read More...
Five screens and 14 wonderful hours later, I’ll tell you the best way to see Dead Reckoning. Mostly wonderful. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Mostly wonderful. In 2011, the Mission: Impossible films shifted from action story vehicles of varying quality and narrative coherence to unapologetic stunt spectaculars with one clear reason to see them: Tom Cruise risking his life to entertain you. But Ghost Protocol and its antecedents — 2015’s Rogue Nation and 2018’s Fallout, the fifth and sixth entries into the franchise, respectively — didn’t just propose audiences watch the savior of cinema dangle from various extremely high things on any screens, they suggested audiences do so on the biggest, most dynamic screens they could possibly find. Read More...
