In naming a movie WolfCop, you are pretty assuredly guaranteed an audience of at a certain kind of vintage VHS (or Laserdisc)-obsessed cinephile. For my own part, I understood as soon as I heard the title it was only a matter of time until I saw it. WolfCop lives up to its cinema dork-savvy title, but takes some…
Well, judging from the opening weekend box office records, statistically you have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seriously, the only film opening better than the Avengers is The Avengers. The culmination of the four previous movies of Marvel’s “phase 2”, Age of Ultron is a 2 1/2 hour juggernaut of a superhero adventure, one which highlights the best and worse…
In the past two weeks, I’ve found myself feeling something I thought I’d never feel again: excitement for a new Star Wars movie. With the release of the newest trailer, I have been cruising at maximum Star Wars hype, a feeling I have a deep fear will be whisked away again. Obviously, this rekindling of unexpected emotions called…
This year, Netflix dropped one of its greatest original series, and before long I found myself hooked. In 13 episodes, I got swept up in the story of an indomitable hero overcoming a painful past on the wrong side of New York City; a story about standing up in the face of overwhelming odds, doomed…
The climax of Atari: Game Over finds a couple hundred nerds, archeologists both professional and amateur, a digging crew, and a disgraced game designer anxiously standing by in a land fill; it’s windy and looks uncomfortably warm, and the expressions of the gathered mass adorned in sweat-lined video game t-shirts reflects this. An author waits by…
In an era where big budget superhero films dominate the box office, it’s easy to forget that “comic book movie” was once a dirty phrase in Hollywood. Even 10 years ago, silver screen supeheroics were considered a risky investment before Nolan and Whedon used them to shatter records. Capes on Camera is a look at…
Going Clear knows what good horror movie know: what’s shown on screen is sometimes less scary than what’s implied. While there are more than enough chilling tales of the Church of Scientology’s abuses in Going Clear’s 119 minute runtime, it’s knowing that there are untold horrors and dark secrets lurking just outside the camera frame…
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