Browsing Tag: Film

<p><em>Rogue One</em> is an interesting case where it both feels like a very good response to the problems of <em>The Force Awakens</em> but it also kind of lacks the high points that made t...

<p>It’s charming and enough of a mess to be an entertaining watch.</p><p>The weirdness of <em>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</em> comes from the odd structure of the story and the fact t...

<p>Well here it is, our prestige “space” movie for the year. Although instead of a story about a harrowing adventure through space, this time the plot roulette wheel landed on communicate with aliens....

<p>First I should just say that I’m not really a Doctor Strange fan. I’ve certainly read stories with the character that I love, but that’s when he’s surrounded by other characters. I just don’t feel ...

<p><em>The Age of Shadows </em>is a Korean spy thriller set in the Japanese occupied Korea of the late 1920s. It follows a Korean member of the Japanese police who was previously a part of the Korean ...

<p>The second Jack Reacher movie feels more like a double episode of a TV show than a movie, but for what it is I found it totally serviceable.</p>...

<p><em>Asura</em> is a movie that toys with being more, but is ultimately just about bloody bloody violence. Luckily the violence is pretty good but the movie kind of points to a better movie tha...

<p>Something that kind of hit me after the recent <em>Godzilla</em> (Produced by Legendary Pictures) is how intrinsically tied to Japan Godzilla is. There’s plenty about that movie I don’t love, ...

<p><em>Hell or High Water</em> is a modern day dust bowl movie about two brothers robbing banks in Texas. In some ways it’s like the idealized version of what people want the Bonnie and Clyde sto...