Let us get one thing clear before we dive into this "review" of sorts: Many, many much more intelligent people have examined and exegeted 2001: A Space Odyssey in much more insightful and elegant ways than I will ever be able to muster (and if you are looking for such insight, I always find the late …
The Dark Knight Trilogy is an important addition to the current explosion (or glut, depending on your perspective) of all things superhero-related in modern Hollywood. Christopher Nolan's blockbuster trilogy came during a lull in the superhero craze, when the initial wave of mainstream superhero movies (Spider-Man, X-Men) had given way to a string of critical …
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During the infancy of the superhero genre when Hollywood time and time again demonstrated that they did not have a clue about how to bring comic-books to the big screen I was able to take solace in one thing: at least these weren't based on video games. From the days of Super Mario Bros. all the …
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With August in full swing and Hollywood living up to its reputation of treating it as a dump month, I tend to use this time to start training my eyes to the Fall. I love a blockbuster as much as anyone else, but I always have this sense at the end of summer of feeling …
So as I stated last week, I'm in mass catch-up mode before I put out my first edition of the Best of 2018 list (Part 1 here). So here's this weeks round-up: THE DEATH OF STALIN dir. Armando Iannucci From The Thick of It to In The Loop to his current HBO series Veep, Armando Iannucci has perfected the …
It seems only a few weeks ago that I was putting together my final list of the Best Films of 2017 (to be fair, that list did finally come out in April so it wasn't that long ago). But with us firmly entrenched in the month of August it's time for me to begin thinking of evaluating …
With the recently released Mission: Impossible - Fallout generally being hailed as the best action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road (it is definitely one of the best) I figure this is as good a time as any to comb through the action films of this century and suss out what the best might be. This proved to be …
By this point we all know exactly what we're in for when we sit down for the next Mission: Impossible installment: there will be a close-to-foolproof villainous plot for the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) team to try and stop, the IMF team will use deception and trickery to fool the villains (and the audience) during their mission …
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