Star Wars

John Wick is the best franchise in terms of producing higher quality sequels. There, I said it — feel free to disagree, but know that you are wrong. The Keanu Reeves franchise has gotten better…

Movies with good quotes cannot be beat. You can have a terrible movie, but a good quote can revive it. After all, Snakes on a Plane (2006), an otherwise mediocre movie, gave us the best quote of…

In 1999, Star Wars fans around the world queued up at their local box office, eager to step once more into the world of Star Wars. It had been 16 years since Return of the…

Not only is Endgame on the horizon, but so is the rest of the blockbuster season. The late spring/summer movie season is when studios have their largest money-makers…or their worst bombs. Either way, it’s a…

Shazam! claimed its second week as the top box office grosser this weekend, with Little opening up in the number two spot. But the real story here is Hellboy, which struggled mightily, failing to compete with the…

I think I was tired of this year’s Oscar season back in November. It felt like a constant barrage of anger. “Green Book‘s the worst!” “Green Book‘s the BEST!” “Netflix doesn’t deserve Oscars!” “Roma is…

When the Titanic fell into the ocean in 1912, the ship and her passengers became part of our cultural history. In 1997, writer/director James Cameron retold the story of Titanic through the eyes of doomed lovers…

Every year hundreds of films hit the big screen. Week in and week out your local theater will be playing the newest releases. Often enough there will be films that are “must-see” and have large…

Poor Colin Trevorrow. You really have to feel sorry for the guy. No matter what he does in future, he’ll always be remembered as either one of two things; The filmmaker that got famously fired…

Movie trailers lead me into one of two opinions over an upcoming movie. Ideally, I see the trailer and think “wow, that looks really good.”. However, often times I see the trailer and think “put…

2019 is a year of endings. This years sees the “final” installments for many characters and several notable franchises. It seems appropriate to start reminiscing and sending them off now, that way we might be…

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, not a galaxy, exactly, but a variety of undersea kingdoms. Aquaman, the next anticipated DC movie, hit the big screen a few weeks ago.…

Farewell 2018 and hello 2019! With a new year comes more movies to enjoy, laugh or cry to, make fun of or throw a tantrum over. But today that’s all irrelevant as we focus on…

Although I praised 2018 for its wonderful additions to cinema, there’s always a few turds that come out over the year. Whether the problem is studios getting far too involved, studios not getting involved enough, a…

When a screenwriter or screenwriters sits down to write a fan satire, they are walking a fine line. While the satirical elements must be present in the narrative, the fan base must feel like they…

Brand Recognition: The Movie fits as an alternate title for this film. I am going to start off this piece by trying to process all of the logos and icons that are thrown at the audience…

Every year, movie fans have a plethora of new movies to look forward to. Whether it’s a summer blockbuster or winter spectacle, the build-up to each film draws people’s attention and creates the desire to…

The release of Solo: A Star Wars Story this year proves that Star Wars is far from a finished discussion. Princess Leia in a gold bikini played a starring role in any adolescent’s fantasy, both…

Hollywood has produced many iconic locations in its hundred years of film, and many of those locations happen to be fictional bars. As this writer is turning 21, it feels like the appropriate time to…

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that Hollywood today has a significant percentage of British people. Maybe it’s always been like that and I’ve just never noticed, but I feel like England is trying…

Why is the third film in a trilogy almost always the worst? Spider-Man 3, Return of the Jedi, The Godfather Part III, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: the Last Stand, the list could go on and on.…

The summer movie season is winding to a close. Like most summers in the 21st Century, this summer has been one chock full of sequels. Much of the time, sequels are “meh” and fail to…

There are some actors that can play a wide variety of characters. Tom Hanks, for example, can play anything from a starving man on a deserted island to a newspaper executive to a talking cowboy…

Not all children’s entertainment is created equal. If you ask any parent, they can without fail rattle off a movie list of forbidden movies. These have often driven the parents crazy at some point. On…

After a bit of a hiatus, The MovieBabble Podcast is back with its second episode. This time I (Nick Kush) am joined once again by MovieBabble contributor Stephen Finlay to talk about a topic that…

Star Wars: Once such a solid franchise appears to be on the ropes a little these days. The opinions from the fan base fluctuate drastically from one movie to the next. The Force Awakens, Rogue…

If George Lucas, Ron Howard, Rian Johnson, or J.J. Abrams claim to listen to their fans at all, they would realize that there’s one movie the Star Wars universe is begging for: the film that will tell…

Solo released over the Memorial Holiday weekend to not as much fanfare as Disney had hoped it would. The newest Star Wars movie, and the second in the line of Star Wars Stories to release since Disney acquired…

Well, these movies hurt me.  As a critic, there’s only so much I can do to brace myself for terrible films.  For most of the films featured on the list of the worst movies of…

I saw the original Star Wars trilogy in theaters when it first came out, and my favorite character was Han Solo. It helped that I had a serious tweenage crush on Harrison Ford, and I…