Ghost in the Shell is Lush Spectacle with Little Substance [Review]

If there was nothing else going for Rupert Sanders’ take on Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell, I’d probably give it a soft recommend on style points alone. We’ve all cautioned, or have been cautioned, against movies that put style over substance; here, Sanders turns Read More …

Power Rangers Delivers Super-Powered Teens with Attitude….Eventually [Review]

by Max Levine Power Rangers is an action-adventure syndicated kids series that was created in the 1990s with the explicit purpose of selling overpriced toys to some dumbass kids. We were all those dumbass kids, and our parents collectively bought millions of those terrible toys, Read More …

Beauty and the Beast is an Unnecessary Exercise, but Has Its Moments [Review]

After bringing their animated classics Cinderella and The Jungle Book back to cinemas as CGI-soaked live-action films, Disney has now begun the much more intimidating task of shooting remakes of their revered classics from the 1990s—a time period often referred to as The Disney Renaissance. The first to Read More …

X-Education with Professor K: Logan (2017)

With the release of the first X-Men film in 2000, audiences not only witnessed the dawn of the modern day superhero film boom, but also the beginning of a complicated franchise that would span seventeen years and ten films. With Logan now in theaters, Kayleigh Hearn is revisiting Read More …

X-Education with Professor K: “Old Man Logan” (2008)

With the release of the first X-Men film in 2000, audiences not only witnessed the dawn of the modern day superhero film boom, but also the beginning of a complicated franchise that would span seventeen years and ten films. With Logan now in theaters, Kayleigh Hearn is revisiting Read More …

You Have To See This: Crazy/Beautiful, Magical Realism, and the Myth of Young Love

The world is too messed up to obsess over bad movies as much as we do; isn’t it time we obsess over good ones? In his monthly column You Have To See This, Chuck Winters reaches into his pile of flawed, forgotten, or just plain Read More …

John Wick: Chapter 2 – The High Table Roundtable

John Wick: Chapter 2 lit up the box office this Valentine’s Day weekend, much to the delight of Chuck Winters, Max Robinson, Andrew Niemann, and David Uzumeri. The boys take their seats at The High Table to break down the second installment in this unlikely but Read More …