The World’s End

You might not think a slapstick comedy about middle-aged bar hoppers racing with advanced alien invaders to have intelligence, heart and wisdom, but that’s “The World’s End,” a 2013 rare film that’s as much as you see. Directed by Edgar Wright from a script by him and his regular protagonist, Simon Pegg, the film is […]

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PacificRim: Uprising

BACK IN 2011, when Guillermo del Toro was first starting to hype his forthcoming movie Pacific Rim, he gleefully described it as “giant fucking monsters against giant fucking robots.” That’s how he always talked about it, with childlike glee. But he was also steeped in its antecedents: Toho monster films, Voltron, decades of sci-fi. The film he was planning was a playground […]

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