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REVIEW: Finding Dory

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Artwork: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Artwork: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Chris Luckett

Every Pixar movie is compared to those immediately before it.

A Bug’s Life? “It’s good, but it’s no Toy Story.”
The Incredibles? “Even better than Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc.!”
Brave? “Hey, at least it’s better than Cars 2.”

Finding Dory, the animated studio’s 17th feature and their fourth sequel in five years, isn’t as good as last year’s Inside Out. Compared to Pixar’s other recent efforts Brave, The Good Dinosaur, and Monsters University, however, the sequel succeeds adequately enough to make for a fun, forgettable film. Continue reading →

CORE STORY: Mel Gibson working on a sequel to The Passion of the Christ

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Photo: Newmarket Films

Photo: Newmarket Films

Chris Luckett

Before his career fizzled following a DUI and an anti-Semitic rant in 2006, Gibson was the proud director of the most successful independent film of all time, The Passion of the Christ.

A decade later, plans have come out that Gibson and Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace are writing a follow-up to the Biblical tale, which will focus on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Continue reading →

CORE STORY: Trainspotting sequel teaser confirms entire main cast returning

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Photo: Miramax

Photo: Miramax

Chris Luckett

Some sequels remain dormant and teased so endlessly, it becomes a boy-who-cried-wolf situation when they actually become realities. So it is with Danny Boyle’s sequel to 1996’s Trainspotting, which has been rumoured ever since the indie film took the world by storm twenty years ago.

By this point, it had become hard to believe Boyle’s assurances it would eventually happen, but a teaser trailer has just been released, marking it officially confirmed. Continue reading →