Tag: Film Series

Film series live or die on what they preserve between installments. This tag collects reviews of movie franchises and long-running series: continuity, escalation, and the entries where the machine kept or lost the plot.

Action Horror

Underworld Series (2003-2016)

June 6, 2026

The Underworld films turned the vampire into a leather-clad action hero across five entries. As a whole it is more than the sum of its uneven parts.

1980s

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

May 19, 2026

Chechik's 1989 American comedy depicting Clark Griswold's plans for a perfect family Christmas at his suburban Chicago home, which unravel through extended-family chaos, holiday catastrophe, and a frozen pool that becomes the screenplay's central comic obsession. Christmas Vacation is the…

1980s

Lethal Weapon (1987)

May 19, 2026

A suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…

1970s

Airport (1970)

May 19, 2026

George Seaton's 1970 airline disaster film. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Helen Hayes Oscar.

1970s

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

May 19, 2026

Kenji Misumi's 1972 first Lone Wolf film. The film depicts disgraced shogunate executioner Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro wandering Edo-period Japan after the Yagyu clan has destroyed Itto's wife and falsely accused him of treason.

1990s

Look Who’s Talking Too (1990)

May 18, 2026

Diminishing returns on the talking-baby concept. Travolta and Alley return as James and Mollie, now married with a toddler Mikey and a baby Julie.

2010s

Jack Reacher (2012)

May 18, 2026

Rosamund Pike plays defense attorney Helen Rodin. The casting decision produced ongoing critical engagement that the work itself does not fully resolve.

2010s

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

May 18, 2026

2016 sequel with Tom Cruise. Reacher returns to clear an army officer framed for espionage and uncovers deeper conspiracy.

1990s

Mission: Impossible (1996)

May 18, 2026

1996 Brian De Palma spy thriller launching the Tom Cruise franchise. Mission: Impossible is Brian De Palma's 1996 American spy thriller and the franchise launcher that has produced multiple sequels across three decades.