With Sony yanking Concord off the PlayStation Store just two weeks after it launched, the hero shooter’s platinum trophy is now more coveted than ever among diehard PS5 players. So some of them are trying to speedrun the grindy achievement by immediately killing themselves at the start of every match.
With Sony yanking Concord off the PlayStation Store just two weeks after it launched, the hero shooter’s platinum trophy is now more coveted than ever among diehard PS5 players. So some of them are trying to speedrun the grindy achievement by immediately killing themselves at the start of every match.
Over a decade after it became a gaming sensation, Minecraft’s big-screen debut is fast approaching, and now kids, long-time fans, and curious onlookers can gaze upon what the voxel crafting game’s transformation to green screen live action will actually look like. Welcome to the uncanny valley.
Over a decade after it became a gaming sensation, Minecraft’s big-screen debut is fast approaching, and now kids, long-time fans, and curious onlookers can gaze upon what the voxel crafting game’s transformation to green screen live action will actually look like. Welcome to the uncanny valley.
Gladiator II will be one of the year’s biggest releases. Although Russell Crowe is obviously missing from the sequel, last year he joked about fielding many questions about it when he was not involved at all. “They should be f*cking paying me for the amount of questions I get asked about the f*cking film that I am not even in,” adding, “In that world, I’m dead, six feet under. And that’s that.” However, he also thinks the movie is bound to be extraordinary.“If Ridley has decided to do a second part … he will have really strong reasons…I couldn’t think of that movie being less than absolutely spectacular.” He even admitted to a “twinge of jealousy” over the film as it reminds him of his younger days.
According to Variety, Ridley Scott has stated how he never felt the need to consult Crowe over the making of Gladiator II. Scott told Empire that there hadn’t been any semblance of hard feelings between the two,
The plot, frankly, was right under our noses. I think it was so close under our noses that we thought it was too simple. I think [Russell Crowe] is still one of the best actors in the world, and I think we have a good relationship. I hope we do. As long as he doesn’t start bitching about how he wasn’t consulted. Why would I? He’s dead!”
Although many feel this sequel is unnecessary, Scott and the studio have been boasting about the film as one of the best movies Scott has ever done. He would also tell Empire, “It’s the best thing I’ve ever made.” Scott would slightly walk back his grandiose statement to say, “One of the best things. I’ve made a few good ‘uns.” He then went on to tease, “It’s full-bore, brutal action.”
Paul Mescal, who stars as Lucius, said that the Gladiator sequel gave him a chance to break into action territory. “I had always had a kind of latent ambition to do something that was more muscular and physical,” he said. “From a selfish side of things, I wanted to surprise an audience, because I knew that I have this kind of role within me. When this came up, I was like, ‘This is something that I don’t think anybody who’s seen the work that I’ve done previously will be expecting,’ and it’s Ridley Scott.” In addition to Mescal, Gladiator II stars Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, and Derek Jacobi.
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Star Wars Outlaws has all manner of forms of tender in its galaxy-spanning worlds, where bartering is more often used than currency. However, credits play a role when it comes to the really big spends (and are deducted when you die and restart at a checkpoint). We’re talking about significant purchases, upgrades to…
Star Wars Outlaws has all manner of forms of tender in its galaxy-spanning worlds, where bartering is more often used than currency. However, credits play a role when it comes to the really big spends (and are deducted when you die and restart at a checkpoint). We’re talking about significant purchases, upgrades to…
The autumn onslaught of game releases heading into the holiday season is now upon us. If it felt like there were already too many games to pay attention to before, things are about to get much worse. A blessing for some, a curse for others, with heavy-hitters like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, The Legends of…
The autumn onslaught of game releases heading into the holiday season is now upon us. If it felt like there were already too many games to pay attention to before, things are about to get much worse. A blessing for some, a curse for others, with heavy-hitters like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, The Legends of…
PLOT: After the death of her father, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) returns to her family home in Winter River with her daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega) and stepmother, Delia (Catherine O’Hara), in tow. Once there, she becomes plagued by visions of a certain “ghost with the most,” who has problems of his own.
REVIEW: For a while there, you couldn’t have been blamed for thinking Tim Burton had maybe lost a bit of his touch. He had a long run of mediocre movies that climaxed with Dumbo, a movie the director hated so much it almost made him quit the business. However, watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, it can’t be denied that returning to his old stomping grounds by making a sequel to his first mega-hit, Beetlejuice, might have been just what the doctor ordered, with it his most energetic, playful, and creative film in years.
In it, Burton is wise enough to play the hits to a certain extent, as it is not all that different from the original. Yet, by doing a movie that’s so deliberately old school, with practical effects, rude humor, and WAY more gore than you’d expect from a PG-13 movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice almost feels transgressive by how much it plays to the strengths of its director and cast, and discards the trappings of most modern blockbusters.
While it’s been decades since they played their iconic roles, the three returning cast members, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara, are as game as ever, with Ryder’s Lydia now a celebrity psychic who’s somewhat famous for her brushes with the paranormal, even if her own daughter thinks she’s a fake. When Jenna Ortega was cast, everyone assumed she’d be playing a Goth girl riff, just like her on-screen mother did, but she actually plays against type, with Astrid, a skeptic who has no interest at all in ghosts or the paranormal. Moreover, she despises her mother for saying she communicates with the dead, as her own father passed some years back, and she resents his loss.
It’s an interesting, heartfelt approach for Burton and his writers, with Catherine O’Hara’s Delia somewhat humanized this time, too (but not too much), giving the movie some legit heart. But then again, everyone just wants to see Michael Keaton to some extent, right? They won’t be disappointed, with Keaton absolutely on fire and never missing a beat in his long-awaited return. Despite being thirty-six years older, Beetlejuice looks about the same (although they gave him a middle-aged paunch Keaton himself doesn’t have), and his energy level is off the charts. In it, he’s still obsessed with Lydia and bent on reclaiming her, as she had promised to marry him in the first film. But, he’s got a problem with his former wife, Monica Bellucci’s Delores, now a soul-sucking ghoul who wants revenge, as he killed her many centuries ago in his former life.
While Keaton’s the show, Burton himself works overtime to deliver a high-energy romp, with it as musically driven as the first, including a great sequence where Bellucci stitches herself together to The Bee Gees’s “Tragedy” and a climax scored by Richard Harris’s “MacArthur Park” that tries to outdo the first movie’s “Day-O” scene. Add to that Willem Dafoe as a former TV cop now working as an underworld detective, a scenery-chewing Justin Theroux as this movie’s answer to the first film’s Otho, and a surprisingly bittersweet (and deft) handling of the movie’s complicated Jeffrey Jones situation, and you’ve got a sequel that’s a whole lot better than any of us were anticipating.
Truth be told, I was wary of a Beetlejuice sequel, as I figured they should leave well enough alone after thirty-six years. But, once Danny Elfman’s score kicked in, and I got a look at returning production designer Bo Welch’s sets, I was all in on a sequel I had a total blast with. This one is a very pleasant surprise. Here’s hoping this isn’t the last time Burton says Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
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