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Disney's "The Lone Ranger," a lavish period epic directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, had kind of a rough weekend. It began with an unprecedented critical pile-on (there have been some to leap to the film's defense, like Matt Zoller Seitz, who described the movie as a "personal picture, violent and sweet, clever and goofy... as obsessive and overbearing as Steven Spielberg's "1941' — and as likely to be re-evaluated twenty years from now, and described as 'misunderstood'") and ended with a limp box office tally that couldn't even top the middling opening weekend gross of Disney's forgettable franchise nonstarter "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time."
Collecting Blu-Ray movies has gotten harder in the era of streaming - but you'll never believe how expensive these rare movies are.
Wes Ball's Kingdom of Planet of the Apes beats its chest proudly as another standout entry in the franchise. Here's an interview with Neil Sandilands, who plays Koro.
The "Alien" franchise returns to the big screen in 2024 with a brand new installment. Here's everything you need to know about "Alien: Romulus."
Other than being a little too long I really loved the movie. I do feel they could have released it at a different time but it's too late for that now.