Three years ago noted actor John Krasinski, best known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office, stepped behind the camera for his third directorial effort that would end up being his first horror thriller: A Quiet Place. It became his most financially successful hit, pulling in $188 million in the United States and Canada against a $17–21 million budget, and earned an additional $152.7 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $340.7 million. The film…

October 24th, 2017 will go in the history books as the date a deal was struck for a live action version of Dora the Explorer to get produced. The animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner was one of the longest-running series that aired on the Nick Jr. block on the Nickelodeon channel and spawned tons of merchandise so naturally such success wasn't going to go unnoticed by Hollywood. Originally Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes…

It’s no surprise Guardians of the Galaxy wowed audiences after its release, so of course a sequel was granted to continue the ongoing adventures of these unlikely heroes. James Gunn returns as director and writer, this time having full creative control on what he wanted these characters to go through on their next journey and made it colorful, idiosyncratic, and all around goofy while retaining the right amount of drama. After rewatching it on Blu-ray today, it's not as fresh…

Another Disney short from the World War II era deals with mosquitoes and the dreaded malaria disease. This was the first of many health-related educational shorts produced by Walt Disney Productions and the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and the only one using established Disney characters. Art Baker, a noted character actor who had previously done the narration on Disney's Victory Through Air Power, lends his voice again to this short and does a good job laying out what the subject…