Movie Review: The Skeleton Twins
Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader-two of the best comedic actors we’ve got-are so wonderful in The Skeleton Twins you can’t help dearly wishing that this isn’t the last time they….
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Bad Movie Review: Stolen
Netflix has approximately infinity trillion movies available for streaming – some are good, some are shitty, and some are…well, they just are. The kinds of movies that make you wonder….
Movie Review: Atlas Shrugged: Part III
For more than seven decades now Ayn Rand’s work has served as a pseudo-intellectual cover for unbridled selfishness and market-worship. Particularly in the last five years Rand, who died in 1982, has….
Movie Review: The Identical
Elvis Presley is remembered as one of the most popular entertainers of all time, “the King of Rock and Roll”, and a fallen idol, but before he conquered the world,….
Movie review: As Above, So Below
Let me show you something that got me really excited a few months ago: Fuck yeah! Look at that kick-ass poster! Great title, even a great tagline. Then I found….
DVD review: Sparks
Here’s the thing about adaptations of indie comic books: you can always tell when you’re watching one. A film like Sparks isn’t burdened with setting up a sequel or resetting….
TFF41: Telluride Film Festival 2014 Takes Flight! – “Birdman” Review
So it’s that time of year again, when many of the films that cinephiles will consume at Toronto International Film Festival are first seen a week prior by patrons of….
Movie Review: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
In Frank Miller’s graphic novel series low-lifes and outlaws regularly do battle against creeps, sociopathic monsters, and even filthier souls in a perennially night-time scuzzy playhouse of crime, vice, and….
Movie Review: The Giver
The futuristic world imagined by author Lois Lowry in The Giver is a tranquil, safe, and subtly terrifying nightmare. From the ashes of “The Ruin” during which the planet was….
Film Review: What If?… Harry Potter married a muggle?
Let me start by saying that I am a Harry Potter fan-with all that entails. Let me also say that Daniel Radcliffe’s new film, the wistful romantic comedy What If? is very….
Movie Review: Get On Up
There are two types of people in the world: those who love James Brown and those who never cared much for music in the first place. The singer who earned….
Movie Review: A Most Wanted Man
When this year in film is looked back on surely the most significant thing we’ll remember about it-more than any specific movie or new trend-is the enormous loss left by….