The international box-office numbers are in and Disney will be very happy as Pixar’s “Hoppers” beat all projections. The animated feature debut to $46 million domestically, the best for an original animated movie since 2017’s “Coco” – beating out 19 other original films to have opened in that nine-year period

7 Guardians of the Tomb is a novel way of making a giant spider movie: take one large measure of Indiana Jones, a dollop of The Goonies, a dash of Aliens and just the tiniest pinch of Big Trouble in Little China. Then garnish liberally with Sydney funnel web spiders

In part 1 of my Phantasm super review, I covered the background of the franchise and reviewed the first two movies. In this article, I will discuss the final three movies, plus another that could have been. Set against a backdrop of dwindling budgets, the lack of major studio interest