What better theme than hope, for a movie that features and was released on the Chinese lunar New Year (Spring Festival)? In The Wandering Earth, our story opens with a New Year’s festival winding its way through the “streets” of an underground Beijing. Why is the city underground? OK, follow me on this one: The […]
Trailer #2: Skyscraper (2018)
In some ways, the upcoming Skyscraper appears to be a throwback to classics such as The Towering Inferno—set in a contained environment, with more focus on the characters than on the special effects. But where Inferno‘s calamity resulted from construction shortcuts and corruption, Skyscraper is threatened by a putative band of terrorists, a la Die Hard. […]