The 2019 version of The Addams Family made over $200 million from a $24 million budget. With numbers like that a sequel was inevitable. This time the Addamses go on the road and tour America. Gomez Addams (Oscar Isaac) fears his children are growing distant from him. To resolve this he plans to take the family on […]
Tag: Universal Pictures
No Time to Die Review
After 15 years and five films, Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond has come to an end. His last film, No Time to Die is set to be a film that will cause debate for years to come. No Time to Die picks up five years after Spectre left off. Bond has gone into retirement, living a quiet life in […]
Respect Review
Aretha Franklin is the latest beloved musical to receive the biopic treatment. It’s a film following on a tread that Walk the Line and Bohemian Rhapsody has started. Respect follows the life of Aretha Franklin (Skye Dakota Turner/Jennifer Hudson) from the age of 10 to the release of her live album of Amazing Grace in 1972. During this 20-year period Franklin’s musical […]
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan Review
Films based on TV shows are a staple of the British film industry. BBC Three’s People Just Do Nothing is the latest show to get the cinematic treatment. It has been three years since the Kurupt FM boys have split up and gone their separate ways. During that time one of their songs has been used […]
Old Review
It is well known by this point that M. Night Shyamalan is a frustrating filmmaker. His films are either mind-bending and brilliant (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Split), or shockingly awful with no redeeming qualities (The Last Airbender, The Happening, After Earth). Any movie of his from the last 20 years automatically comes with the question […]
The Croods: A New Age Review
The Croods are back for a second cinematic adventure. This time the tribe meets the first civilised family and faces the challenges of their culture crash. Since the events of the first film The Croods are searching for the fabled ‘Tomorrow’. They seem to have found it when they cross over a wall to a […]
Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #23: Fast & Furious Franchise
Kieran Freemantle and Zack Walsh talk about the Fast & Furious franchise and the latest film from the series F9: The Fast Saga.
Freaky Review
Freaky is a horror-comedy that mashes up the slasher film with a body swap comedy. What was created was a wonderfully self-aware film that pays tribute to both genres. Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) is a quiet and bullied high school student. She lives in the small American town of Blissfield. But Blissfield has been plagued by […]
Fast and Furious Ranked
It’s almost that time again! After such a long break from cinemas, our society can once again gather in a loud dark room and watch some big men hit each other with their cars. Yes, with the arrival of F9: The Fast Saga close upon us, we here at Pop Culture Maniacs figured we’d take […]
Nobody Review
In a cinematic landscape of big CGI blockbusters and superheroes, the film Nobody was a wonderfully violent, small-scale offering from the action genre. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a seemingly ordinary man: he lives in the suburbs with his wife and two kids, has an office job and keeps forgetting to put the trash out. But […]