Disappointment

via Warner Bros. Maintaining a level of consistent quality from beginning to end is one of the minimum requirements necessary in creating a popular and well-received movie, but the team behind 2002’s Ghost Ship didn’t get the memo. That’s not to say director Steve Beck’s supernatural nightmare is an abject failure from its first minute to last, but a frankly stunning opening soon gives way to rampant mediocrity, something that even the film’s staunchest of defenders are ready, willing, and able to admit. In…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMaisie Williams has torn into Spider-Man: No Way Home, calling it the “biggest film disappointment of the year”..The Game of Thrones actor was asked to name a recent film that didn’t live up to its promise on the latest episode of her podcast, and she selected the Marvel film, which was released in December 2021.“My biggest film disappointment was the new Spider-Man – it just wasn't my…

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and I had to miss Saturday’s game. Assuming the Dodgers won, I’m looking forward to Game 5 tonight.—The Dodgers do a great job of building a team for the regular season. An outstanding job. They just haven’t figured out how to build a World Series champion team. There’s not a huge difference between to regular season and the postseason, but there is a difference, and the Dodgers’ push-button job of management hasn’t figured it out.—The…

Image via Blumhouse Productions Welcome back, gore lovers, to another daily roundup of the latest eye-watering news in the realm of horror. So far, the loaded content over the last two weeks has undoubtedly enthralled genre junkies, but we’re certainly nowhere near the end of spooky season — with various updates still shuffling in, much to the delight of us all. In the latest collection of headline-inducing news, a possible crossover between two Blumhouse films has the capability of highlighting next year’s…

Bayonetta developer Platinum Games' CEO has apologized for letting fans down with the company's newest game, Babylon's Fall. The game launched in March 2022 and its servers are shutting down in February 2023.Speaking to VGC, Atsushi Inaba said the team has learned from the experience and won't abandon plans to make live-service games in the future. He told the site that the studio is "extremely sorry" that Babylon's Fall turned out the way it did, but he isn't able to comment completely due to commitments…

Marvel Studios Eternals may not be the best-regarded movie in the MCU, but that doesn’t mean that the stars who made it were any less hopeful that it would remain a franchise within the ever-changing landscape of Marvel movie mythology. And at least one of the cast showed what appears to be genuine remorse that a sequel doesn’t appear to be in Marvel Studios’ deck of cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_me3xsvDgk Just under a year since Eternals was released in theaters, the movie continues to be…

OnePlus is apparently having a hard time putting a lid on leaks exposing its upcoming flagship. Days after rumored 3D schematic renders of the OnePlus 11 Pro popped up online, leaker OnLeaks (via 91Mobiles) has shed some light on the OnePlus 11 Pro’s core specifications. It’s a usual flagship affair from top to bottom, but there are a few interesting bits to unpack. Starting with the subtly curved display, it’s a 6.7-inch OLED screen with QHD+ (roughly 3216 x 1440 pixels) resolution. There’s a circular cutout in the…

Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast discusses the latest Nintendo Direct! Welcome back! It is a new Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid. Topics: Tonight, we’re discussing all the recent announcements from the Nintendo Direct this morning. Breath of the Wild 2 finally has a real name with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. To many gamers’ surprise, Pikmin 4 was revealed. Fire Emblem Engage is coming on January 20 and it has a…

Image via A24 It’s safe to say that A24 more than pulls its fair share of weight when it comes to movies. From spring to summer this year alone, we’ve gotten X, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Men, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and Bodies Bodies Bodies, to say nothing of its upcoming headline-stealers such as The Whale, which will mark a triumphant return for actor Brendan Fraser after his tumultuous and tragic decline in the industry. To suggest that any upcoming A24 film is the biggest one we’ve ever seen…

via Marvel Studios Many children have dreamed of becoming a superhero, and for Chris Hemsworth, that dream came true. However, while the Australian heartthrob has won hearts globally as the God of Thunder, his younger self might have some concerns about which hero he turned out to be.  The actor posted a throwback photo on Twitter to commemorate turning 39, and in it he’s donning a Batman shirt and grinning from ear to ear. With a caption that reads, “My younger self would be so disappointed,” Hemsworth…