When it comes to choosing what to review next, I have a tendency to pick movies that are, for lack of a better word, bad. I know they’re bad; that’s why I want to write about them. Maybe it’s just that I love an underdog. But Read More …
Studios like to market action films as “nonstop thrill rides” or “high-octane adventures,” but Mad Max: Fury Road transcends such rote praise. It’s like being fired out of the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun and piercing rusty debris along the way to a messy Read More …
While our official, spoiler-free review went up last weekend, we thought that we’d take the opportunity to discuss Avengers: Age of Ultron as a group, now that the dust has settled and we’ve all had some time to think about it. I’ll be your moderator, Read More …
There’s a sequence in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, a film I didn’t entirely love, that nonetheless sold me on the entire enterprise. After bickering and side-eyeing each other for nearly the entire movie, the titular team puts aside their differences and gets to work, laying waste Read More …
While this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man wrap up Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, next year’s Phase Three will rocket the MCU toward a tumultuous new status quo, one in which the superhero community will be cracked in half. Captain America: Civil War promises to adapt the popular Read More …
Star Wars is the rare film whose influence on Hollywood cannot be overstated; following its smash success in 1977, theaters were hailed with a meteor storm of Star Wars cash-ins, rip-offs, and wannabes. Some imitators, like Battlestar Galactica, would prove surprisingly long-lived, while others like Read More …
There’s something both frightening and comforting in cinema’s ability to remind viewers of the humanity in those charged to protect and serve us. It’s frightening, because it means that they’re corruptible and prone to errors, but it’s also comforting to know that they understand the concept and Read More …
Every Thursday, our staff of pop culture addicts tackles a topic or question about movies, music, comics, video games, or whatever else is itching at our brains. We now live in a culture for which the release of a film trailer is as highly anticipated an Read More …
What do we deserve? This question is at the heart of Levan Gabriadze’s poltergeist revenge flick, Unfriended. Clocking in at a lean eighty-two minutes, the action of the film occurs in real time on the anniversary of a popular high school girl’s bully-driven suicide and Read More …
Noah Baumbach seems like a smart enough filmmaker. While We’re Young has a lackluster premise that would have resulted in a horrible movie under an average director, so I’m willing to bet that it’s Baumbach’s intelligence that raises his latest film to merely “not good.” Mature but hackneyed in Read More …