Tag: jonmchu

WICKED: FOR GOOD Review: Follow-Up To Last Year's Smash Hit Fails To Justify Its Running Time

When studio executives, driven by commercial and not artistic concerns, decide to expand an adaptation of a beloved, long-running Broadway musical, the results will inevitably look and, more importantly, sound like Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians, Now You See...

Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama

Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.

Destroy All Monsters: JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS, A Weird Experiment With Fan Engagement

Let's start with a couple of caveats: 1) Jem and the Holograms, the 2015 adaptation of the Hasbro toy line and cartoon series directed by Jon M. Chu, is terrible; 2) I sort of adore it. I don't like it...