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‘6 Underground’: Netflix Enables Michael Bay To Reach New Bombastic Heights [Review]

December 11, 2019 9:49 am

Lightning-fast edits. Sudden slow-motion. An overheated color palette. Whip-speed fragmented dialogue. Crashing metal – though, thankfully, none of it robotic this time. An immature remark made by a male charac...

James Cameron Enjoyed Having a “Blank Slate” With ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’

Charles Barfield

September 1, 2019 11:23 am

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Stop me if you've heard this one before: in just a few months' time, we're going to get a brand-new "Terminator" sequel, and this one is definitely, definitely going to fix the problems with all its predecessor...

Producer Thinks ‘Annihilation’ Is “Too Intellectual” For Audiences

Kevin Jagernauth

December 8, 2017 9:58 am

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There are few filmmakers who enjoy the test screening process. Particularly for blockbusters, it's hard to understand the value of showing an unfinished movie, with incomplete effects, to a group of random stra...