PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING (full review at The Reel Word)

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim landed on our screens back in 2013 and certainly had its fair share of detractors, as a brief trawl through the popular movie aggregators will attest. But while many laud Del Toro for his weightier works, some of us find his genre fare far more appealing. Sure, a melancholy tale of fish-man love will win you an Oscar, but does it have mind-melding robots punching the crap out of giant interdimensional monsters? And so with that, and a decent box office behind it, Pacific Rim: Uprising is here. With Stephen S. DeKnight (Daredevil) taking over the helm and Del Toro relegated to producing duties, can it live up to the lunkheaded majesty of the original?

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IMDB: Pacific Rim Uprising

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER (full review at The Reel Word)

Kumiko The Treasure Hunter is a curious picture. By the time the credits roll, expectations are flung distant, in part due to some extremely odd decisions to position it as a comedy, and in part due to a concept that promises whimsy, but instead delivers melancholy.
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IMDB: Kumiko The Treasure Hunter