The Sane Lunatic

After one of the best Hollywood films about giant fricking monsters against giant fricking robots came out in 2013, Pacific Rim finally gets its much-awaited sequel — Pacific Rim: Uprising. The core attraction remains the same with more big, fricking robots and even bigger monsters bashing it out and decimating cityscapes in their wake, but everything else is pretty much new. We follow the story from the point of view of Jake Pentecost (John Boyega from the new Star Wars films) who is the son of the first instalment's badass, Stacker Pentecost (played by Idris Elba). It's a typical kid-under-the-shadow-of-his-dad's-legacy, one who saved the world at that. Ten years after the bridge was closed and the war was won, most of the destroyed coastal cities are still wastelands. Settlements of looters with barter exchange in place of a monetary system in order to acquire resources like food and shelter. Scavenging Jaegers (name of the giant frickin robots) for parts was the ...

Another weekend, another remake. This one is a relatively ill-timed reiteration of an action classic - Death Wish. The iconic role played out by Charles Bronson of being a manly vigilante is now played by the only old-looking badass that isn't bulky: Bruce Willis. It's pretty much the same story brought forward to the current times. Shooting related crimes and deaths are high in Chicago so it's the location for the plot. Bruce Willis plays a well-renowned surgeon by the name of Paul Kersey who has worked hard and lives with his beautiful wife Lucy (Elizabeth Shue) and daughter Jordan (Camila Morrone) in a big home, has nice cars and everything is going well for him. Then one night, a band of thieves are at the Kersey residence and it all goes wrong when the robbers confront Paul's wife and daughter. Lucy agrees to their terms to hand over all the valuables but while she's opening the safe, one of the robbers watching Jordan starts trying to molest her. Jordan...