Can a big-budget Hollywood epic tell an anti-capitalist story? Director Christian Rivers' new “Mortal Engines” film answers that question with a clear, grinding, belching, "no!" The bloated Hollywood ...

Released in 2018, Mortal Empires wasn't a very successful movie upon release, but five years later it's seeing a second life as a Netflix sleeper hit, with many new fans discovering the fantasy epic ...

It’s been a bad opening week for Mortal Engines, the new science fiction film adapted from the novels of Philip Reeve and directed by Christian Rivers. The film did not perform well at the box office ...

Peter Jackson chose not to direct the spectacular post-apocalyptic “Mortal Engines.” But he wrote the screenplay adaptation with longtime screenwriting partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyen. And he ...

The calamitous performance of Mortal Engines at the box office over the last three weekends is something most people could not have predicted. There was no buzz surrounding Mortal Engines before it ...

There are lots of moving parts under the chassis of “Mortal Engines,” a sci-fi fantasy in which a young woman seeks revenge in a world of predator cities that roam the barren landscape in search of ...

Mortal Engines might present some generic story turns, but the worldbuilding, the amount of detail put into the world, and fantastic sound elevates the entire production. Director: Christian Rivers ...

After Thanksgiving weekend, it looked like the Lionsgate movie “Robin Hood” would be the biggest blockbuster bomb of the 2018 box office. But the Sherwood Forest revamp has now been dethroned by ...

Peter Jackson most definitely does not have another "Lord of the Rings"-sized hit on his hands this holiday season. With “Mortal Engines” becoming an instant box office bomb, the film now stands to ...

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You can’t accuse Mortal Engines of not trying hard. It’s tough to think of any other film in recent memory that’s put so much effort into creating an expansive new fictional universe; a beautifully ...