Tag Archives: spy/political thriller

Whereas the best films in the franchise have their own identities, 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation' feels merely serviceable. It's fine but nothing else.

'The Mis-Adventures of Adam West' features a fictionalized-yet-somewhat-authentic Adam West (the real West served as a consultant to this comic) at the center of this meta-narrative is ideal, and it positions this series to critique both the general cookie-cutter crappiness of today’s action movies as well as the idealized masculinity of the 50s and early 60s.