Posts tagged Helen Mirren
Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods is an affable sequel, but it also proves the DCEU has well and truly run out of gas.

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Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromShazam! Fury of the Gods, Shazam!, DCEU, David F. Sandberg, Henry Gayden, Chris Morgan, DC, DC Comics, Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Glazer, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, D. J. Cotrona, Grace Caroline Currey, Meagan Good, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, Helen MirrenComment
Review: Fast X (2023)
Review: Fast X (2023)

Louis Leterrier’s Fast X is most distinctly an overlong franchise jumble.

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Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFast X, Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious Saga, Louis Leterrier, Dan Mazeau, Justin Lin, Zach Dean, Gary Scott Thompson, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Scott Eastwood, Daniela Melchior, Alan Ritchson, Helen Mirren, Brie Larson, Rita Moreno, Jason Statham, Jason Momoa, Charlize TheronComment
Review: F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
Review: F9: The Fast Saga (2021)

F9 escalates the series into the realm of pure spectacle and melodrama.

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Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious, F9: The Fast Saga, F9, Justin Lin, Daniel Casey, Alfredo Botello, Gary Scott Thompson, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, Michael Rooker, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell, Charlize TheronComment
Zack Snyder: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Zack Snyder: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

For all its fantasy adventure tropes and CGI animation conventions, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole has all the formal tics and thematic obsessions of a Snyder film.

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Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Reviews, Zack Snyder, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromZack Snyder, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, John Orloff, Emil Stern, Kathryn Lasky, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, David WenhamComment
Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Like its predecessor, National Treasure: Book of Secrets is an exercise in nostalgic nationalism, but also a goofily entertaining adventure film.

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Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromNational Treasure, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Jon Turteltaub, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Gregory Poirer, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Jim Kouf, Oren Aviv, Charles Segars, Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Bruce Greenwood, Helen MirrenComment