When does a film transcend its actual substance and become about what it wants to be, or even what it could be? It shouldn’t right? A film is a film; the rest is hype. I find the substance of xXx: Return of Xander Cage to be Read More …
Breck Eisner’s The Last Witch Hunter follows the very long life of Vin Diesel’s original D&D character Kaulder, a man cursed with immortality for killing a powerful and evil witch, the aptly named Witch Queen, to avenge his murdered family (and also, bonus, save the Read More …
With Fastmania sweeping the nation, it’s hard not to presume some of the hype is backhanded, the latest in a long line of things people on the Internet pretend to give a shit about to feel like a part of the conversation. As someone who spent most Read More …
You know how you can tell Vin Diesel is a role-playing game nerd? I mean, aside from knowing he wrote the foreword to the Dungeons & Dragons 30th anniversary retrospective and all of his fake tattoos in xXx were references to his D&D characters. You Read More …
It’s a strange world we live in, where the seventh (FUCKING SEVENTH?!) installment of an action franchise that used to be a gearhead punchline is on track to do superhero movie numbers this opening weekend, but the peculiarity inherent in the Fast & Furious universe’s Read More …
I’m awake at 8:42 a.m. on a Saturday, preparing to watch the six Fast and Furious movies in one sitting. I’ve somehow never seen the first four films, even though I’m a huge fan of Fast Five and Furious 6. With Furious 7 out next Read More …