“Sicario” translates to “Hitman” from Spanish. As a film, it could just as easily translate to “roller coaster.” For as slick as the editing…
“Kingsman” really wants you to believe that it’s different. It’s not like all the other spy movies, you know. Except it is exactly…
Steven Spielberg couldn’t help but give Americans the last laugh in “Bridge of Spies.” A brief, fleeting exploration of what makes…
What happens when a lovable loser doesn’t feel loved? The Peanuts Movie explores this at its fringes, following Charlie Brown…
Familiar isn’t always bad. Sometimes familiar is just the thing you’re looking for, with it’s warmth and deep similarity to all…
In a vacuum, Spectre is perfect entertainment and a fun, if familiar, Bond film. In context with what came before it, Spectre lacks the…
We, as a movie-going and reviewing society, sure complain about remakes a lot. Let’s extend that to reboots, retreads, requels and reimaginings, for that matter. Any of those tags signal the first strike for a film before given a chance to make its case…
There’s just something special about the first time. When Joss Whedon first assembled the Avengers much of the appeal…
I didn’t know the real Steve Jobs, and, well, you probably didn’t either. As such, I don’t know how well Michael Fassbender captured the…
Crimson Peak will, fairly or unfairly, be judged on what it isn’t rather than what it is. It’s ambitious in that it isn’t the type of…
