Mad Max: Fury Road
“Oh, what a day. What a lovely day!”, one of the characters excitedly proclaims early in Fury Road upon assessing the spectacular damage wrought during a chase through a blistering….
Category: Movies | Reviews
Avengers: Age of Ultron
How strange it must have been for Joss Whedon to make Avengers: Age of Ultron. As his swan song in the Marvel universe, he’s free to embrace his weirder tendencies – and….
Going Clear
After films like Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney was already on his way to cementing his status….
It Follows
It’s not overstating things by that much to say that comedies should be measured most decisively by how frequently and hard they make you laugh, action movies by their excitement….
Run All Night
Run All Night is in the unenviable position of being seen as Taken 4 but with a son instead of a daughter. To illustrate this point, I chose as the….
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business is an exhausted wheeze of a comedy. It plays like trying to hurry off to a business meeting while your desk and work computer are wrapped around your….
Chappie
Chappie, the third movie written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in a dystopian future and what it would mean if humans were able….
What We Do in the Shadows
It’s a shame that more people won’t see What We Do in the Shadows, because not only is it very, very funny, but it’s also unexpectedly (perhaps accidentally) poignant. It’s….
Fifty Shades of Grey
I’m going to be blunt and admit that I expected nothing from Fifty Shades of Grey (a shock, I know). That just so happens to be exactly what I got. Granted,….
Kingsman: The Secret Service
I’m torn. On the one hand, I’d really love to see Matthew Vaughn take the reins of a James Bond film. On the other, he’s so much more well suited….
Bad Movie Review: I Don’t Know How She Does It
Apparently the world needs as many movies about Sarah Jessica Parker wearing fancy clothes as possible. “But I’ve already seen both Sex and the City movies ten times!” I wailed…..
Justice League vs Bizarro League – Small Size, Big Fun!
Warner Animation does it again with their latest release featuring the heroes of DC Comics. Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs Bizarro League (that’s a mouthful) continues the successful….