BURTON REVIEWS (and news)

(Image sourced from http://screenrant.com/john-wick-2-keanu-reeves-training-video/ )   With DVD shelves full of by-the-numbers action films that are 2/3 rds boring exposition and 1/3 rd sub-par fighting, the action movie genre needed waking back up and reminding of how awesome it can be.   And that’s exactly what it got in 2014 with the glass of ice cold water thrown at the genre to shock it’s systems back into overdrive being in the form of John Wick, an unassuming film that had the goofy concept of killing a whole Russian mob over the death of a dog, but the film knew exactly what it wanted to be and it excelled at it with ferocious action, a perfect lead in Keanu Reeves, and an extremely cool world for Mr. Reeves to kick, duck, and shotgun-boom his way through. But now with such high expectations on this action-movie’s shoulders, will it buckle under the weight of its unexpected success, or do what it does best, blow our minds with a perfect pistol shot. (Video s...

(Image sourced from http://www.hercampus.com/school/ucf/split-and-stigma-shyamalans-new-controversial-movie-advocates-mental-health ) After just over a decade of awful box office and critical bombs such as the painful The Last Airbender in 2010 and the mind numbingly boring After Earth in 2013, the release of The Visit in 2015 seemed to declare M. Night Shyamalan’s return to actually well-crafted and enjoyable film making as he scaled back the scope of his films to bring a more relatable and engrossing edge to his films that seemed lacking in the past decade of his filmography. Now, with the release of Split, will M. Night be able to remain on this re-ascension to greatness, or falter once again?   The story of Split sees three teenage girls: the outcast with obvious deep emotional issues, Anya Taylor-Joy as Cass Cooke, the popular girl who has never had to worry about anything in her life before, Haley Lu Richardson Claire Benoit, and her best friend, Jessica Sula as ...