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The Film: When "Speed Racer" first debuted in manga form 60 years ago, it quickly gained quite a following, so much so that an anime was launched the very next year that's become quite a fan-favorite over the decades. It seemed almost inevitable that a filmmaker would want to try their hand at adapting it into a film somewhere down the line, which brings us to The Wachowskis and their 2008 attempt to adapt the material for the big screen. To say that the critics didn't care f

The Film: Between 2011 and 2017, three different "Smurfs" films were brought to the big screen, attempting to keep alive the spirit of the beloved comics from the '50s, which were most famously turned into a popular cartoon series that ran for nine seasons between 1981 and 1989. Sadly, the recent films were not received very well by critics, but that hardly stopped them from being rather successful at the box office, with the first of them grossing well over half a billion do

With the incredible success of the stylish actioner “John Wick,” it’s hardly surprising to find that similar projects would be...

The Film: King Kong has always been a somewhat problematic character when it comes to presenting him on the big screen. After all, how do...

The Film: 2016 turned out to be the year where writer/director Peter Berg finally got himself back on track after hitting a bit of a...