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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAmid the great resplendent buffet of cinema, no one is likely to mistake the Fast and Furious franchise for caviar. The film series – from its humble 2001 beginnings as a street-racing crime drama, through to its latest instalment, the bombastic, preposterous Fast X (out this week) – is basically Hollywood’s answer to the Big Mac. The dialogue is bad. The plotting is risible. The…

via Warner Bros. Television It’s a lot harder to name a franchise that hasn’t suffered from the law of diminishing returns at least one, but there are few that have repeatedly failed as hard and as often as Terminator, leaving it a shadow of its former self when you consider the sci-fi saga began with two undeniable all-time classics that will forever stand the test of time. James Cameron deservedly took the lion’s share of the credit, but even when he returned to produce and help write Dark Fate, the end…

Image via Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe is sort of like a skeleton; everything is connected, but some parts are a bit more connected than others. Indeed, for all the emotions that get thrown into the universe whenever a new Marvel character makes their MCU debut, there’s just no denying the tried-and-true power of the micro-franchises that make up so much of the premier comic book world; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may have been a Marvel movie, but No Way Home was a Spider-Man movie,…

via Disney Having made a point of retaining almost complete creative autonomy throughout his entire career by wearing multiple hats on virtually every single one of his projects, there was widespread belief that Robert Rodriguez simply had no interest in conforming to the studio system to tackle a big budget blockbuster. Of course, that all changed when he partnered up with James Cameron to bring Alita: Battle Angel to the big screen, only for the blockbuster sci-fi to disappoint at the box office. It did spawn…

The Persona series has topped 17 million in sales, while Yakuza (also known as Like a Dragon) has surpassed 20 million units sold.This comes by way of a recent Sega and Rovio press conference detailing key financial stats for the company's top games. Elsewhere during the presentation, Sega announced that Sonic the Hedgehog has surpassed 1.4 billion units "sold," though it's important to note this stat includes free-to-play mobile downloads--such as Sonic Dash, which has reached over 500 million downloads…

via Voltage Pictures The old adage offers that there’s a butt for every seat, which answers a lot of questions while continuing to pose many more. For instance; who is so invested in the After franchise that we needed five of them? Certainly not critics anyway, seeing as the previous two chapters After We Fell and After Ever Happy both scored a big fat zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes. In fact, the first installment and sequel After We Collided netted 18 and 13 percent approval ratings on the aggregation site,…

The trend of revisiting popular franchises continues to get strong in the world of showbiz, with new spinoffs being announced. We take a look at some of such announcements, which has left fans excited. The Twilight Saga’s television series is now in the works. Revisting Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory universe is set to get a new addition. As per a report by Deadline, Chuck Lorre, who co-created The Big Bang Theory as well as its spin-off Young Sheldon, is in the early stages of developing another comedy…

Continue? A lot of people may remember Advance Wars series as a flash in the pan, popping out of nowhere on the Gameboy Advance and then dying out a few years later on the DS. But in Japan, the Wars series was one of Nintendo’s longest running, prolific franchises, starting on the Famicom before spreading its military might to the Gameboy, Super Famicom, GameCube, and the Wii. For folks who had been following the franchise for the 20 years up to its abrupt conclusion, hearing that Intelligent Systems had no “clear idea”…

Image via New Line Cinema Evil Dead Rise is officially out in theaters, and let’s just say this ain’t no Army of Darkness. Where the Evil Dead pendulum has historically enjoyed swinging between comedy and horror, Evil Dead Rise has no interest in identifying itself with anything but sheer terror, much to the varyingly-welcome detriment of our nervous systems. Evil Dead Rise follows the trials and tribulations of Beth, who seeks to reconnect with her estranged sister Ellie, who’s also a mother of three. But when…