Despite feeling rushed and disjointed, one thing that can be said about 'Glass' is that no matter how many superhero movies are made, no one but M. Night Shyamalan would make a superhero movie quite like this one.
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There is already enough inherited cheese in a man wearing glowing underwater armor firing a plasma rifle while riding on the back of giant shrimp. We don't need more.
Read More »REVIEW: Everything great about Spider-Man is in ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
What's clear is that 'Into the Spider-Verse' isn't limited by being an animated feature. No. For this Spider-Man - Miles Morales Spider-Man - animation is the feature which removes all limits.
Read More »REVIEW: Toothless ‘Venom’ comes and goes with little to remember
"Venom" has no identity to wrap itself around. It's not scary enough to be horror and not funny enough to be comedy. If it weren't for the comic books, it would barely be a superhero movie.
Read More »‘I’d love to be on set right now!’ An interview with indie filmmaker Lars Henriks
I’ve never made a movie. I’ve always wanted to, I’ve written a couple on my own, co-written a couple more, and even arranged a cast and crew and scheduled a shoot only to have it all collapse, twice, but I have yet to actually make a movie. The excuses are …
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ is exactly as big as it needs to be
The plot of 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' can't help but feel really small, so to speak, compared to the prospect of wiping out of half of all life in the universe, but the off-beat humor keeps the movie brisk when the low-stakes story and low-rent secondary villains aren't enough to propel it forward.
Read More »REVIEW: Unlike Han, ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ plays it safe
'Solo' is as fun as it is forgettable, but at least it doesn't ruin the character (unlike other 'Star Wars' prequels).
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Deadpool 2’ spoiler alert! Thanos is in it and it’s really good!
Can the team behind 'Deadpool' succeed without the novelty of the first film? Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes they can.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ will be the only thing you want to talk about
Let's appreciate the care and effort taken to create a singular, coherent cinematic universe - something that hadn't been done before and, arguably, hasn't been equaled since - before it's all torn apart piece by piece.
Read More »REVIEW: Effort is needed to make ‘Red Sparrow’ worth watching
One could as easily argue that Jennifer Lawrence turns in a tightly nuanced performance as a wronged woman leveraging her way through an abusive society in which her only asset is sex appeal as one could argue that she's a flat character who simply falls back on her conditioning to get what she wants.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Black Panther’ does what no other Marvel film can
Flashing back to early 90's Oakland, perhaps instead of a poster for "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" a more appropriate Public Enemy album might've been "Fear of a Black Planet."
Read More »Pop Mythology’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Not to start off on a sour note but many events in 2017 have reaffirmed my commitment to living outside of the United States. As much as this placement has made it easy to exist beyond the reach of current domestic turbulence, it’s also made it difficult in the last …
Read More »REVIEW: ‘The Last Jedi’ contains both the best and worst of ‘Star Wars’
'Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi' includes sequences that rank among the best of any 'Star Wars' film. It's exciting, intriguing, complex, funny, and, most unexpected of all, artistic. But there are also moments which rival the series' absolute worst.
Read More »REVIEW: The heroes in ‘Justice League’ deserve better
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about 'Justice League' is that it's not horrible.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ – the end of the world is a roaring good time
In short, 'Ragnarok' Thor is the best Thor. It's also the best Hulk.
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