Tag: Andy Serkis

The Hobbit begins with An Unexpected Journey that's too often expected and too long, if still enjoyable fantasy fare.

Frodo's heroism succeeds among Return of the King's endless fighting - and yet he never kills anything himself, a true pacifist's fable.

The Two Towers is an unusually optimistic middle chapter, imperfect, if ensuring Frodo is a notable, memorable hero.

While familiar, safe, and even predictable in its method, Rise of Skywalker does what's needed to close a saga concerned with totalitarians and the families who fight back.

Taking Shots at Politics Long Shot makes no attempt to restructure the mainstream romantic comedy. It uses bigger stakes – the American Presidency – and still finds a way …

For Wakanda Killmonger, Black Panther’s supervillain, is right. He speaks against mass incarceration, for civil rights, notes cultural theft, and acknowledges poverty. He lived in ghettos, lost his father, …

Chilly Finish War for the Planet of the Apes buries a complex morality saga in the cold – literally in the climax. It’s a circumstance of luck and more …

Kingly To answer the question of why promoters snatch Skull Island’s enlarged ape instead of the dinosaurs, it’s because Kong is capable of emotion. It is impossible to look …

Dawn of Another Legacy Dawn of the Planet of the Apes conquers the tremendous – and rising – Hollywood sequel stakes. That may be the most remarkable thing about …

This is too often fan service and less of a film for it, over eager like an excited child.

Tintin introduces the sly intelligence of the character behind the opening credits, in and of itself telling a brisker action set piece than most of Hollywood will push out …

This is forward-thinking, just not backwards thinking, leaving room for sequels that, who knows, may still connect themselves.