Flash Frames

I admittedly do not know much about the Fallout franchise, but the most exposure I have to it is the overall tone of the last few games franchise, along with playing a little bit past the opening of Fallout 4 . However, it’s been pretty clear for the past few years that adaptations of video games into movies or shows are getting a lot better now. Sure, there’s the oddball one that’s pretty bad like the Halo show on Paramount+, but adaptations like Halo used to be the norm. The Last of Us seems to be the biggest example for shows, becoming a flagship HBO Sunday night series, and whether or not you liked it, The Super Mario Bros. Movie was one of the highest-grossing movies of 2023. There also seems to be some common threads that separates a Halo or an Assassin’s Creed from a Last of Us or Mario : involvement of the creators and overall respect of the source material. The writers and showrunners of Halo just tossed away the games and are doing their own thing, and look at what ha...

I’ve always sort of enjoyed the Monsterverse, which was established by Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla from 2014 and has had an admittedly strange existence in my mind and also in Hollywood. It’s somehow also been going strong for a while now, with three movies consistently released for the past few years, and yet I constantly forget I’ve seen nearly all of them in theaters. The easy crown for the best one out of them for me is Kong: Skull Island , which might just have to do with me being more of a King Kong guy than a Godzilla guy, but we’ve all got our preferences. Even after multiple movies, a spin-off on Apple TV+, and an animated series on Netflix that I didn’t even know existed until I began writing this, it’s a cinematic universe that’s outlasted quite a few failed ones. So, going into Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire , it feels strange knowing how long this series of movies/shows has gone on and that they’re all at least consistently entertaining, I’m hoping for the same. For the mo...

It’s funny enough to see that two conspiracy thriller/horror movies involving nuns (or nunsploitation, if you want a term) hit theaters only two weeks apart. One is a star-driven project released by an independent studio that ended up being a moderate box office hit, and the other is the prequel to a 1970s horror movie that’s considered by many to be a classic in horror. I’m reviewing the latter, The First Omen , right now, but I do have to at least share my two cents on the former, Immaculate , which ended up starring Sydney Sweeney, along with being a producer on the project. While I do think that Immaculate has its moments, it’s shrunk on me the more I’ve thought about it. Even Sweeney’s pretty great performance and a killer ending haven’t entirely stuck with me in the under-a-month it’s been since I’ve seen it. The First Omen , though, really does feel like a total shock to the system. Think about this phrase on its own: A prequel to a beloved horror movie that probably had too man...