Truthfully, the notion that a Deadpool movie exists at all still feels like a minor miracle. It’s been 7 years since the Marvel’s fourth-wall shattering anti-hero and patron saint of the internet* made his infamously off-model film debut in the underwhelming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and at the time, getting the character on screen in proper form –much…
What makes great art? Is great art that which sticks with you? Is great the movie/ novel/ painting that changes your perspective on life? Is it a work that can provide you with a sense of comfort and home when you’re feeling your worst? If so, then Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is, without a doubt, great art. Bill…
S Like most of the East Coast, I found myself unable to leave my house this past weekend as Blizzard Jonas dumped record snowfall on Philadelphia. While for many, this snow-in was an opportunity to spend quality time with family or ensure that the “be like (your name here)” meme well overstayed its welcome, I…
Before journeying to the City of Brotherly Love to attempt to convince Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) to train him, Adonis “Donny” Creed (Michael B. Jordan) projects a recording of his father’s famous bout with the Italian Stallion onto the wall. Standing in front of the projection, Donny is shadowboxing, mimicking the punches, dodges, and weaves…
The plot: En route to Red Rock, Wyoming to ensure fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) hangs, bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) picks up fellow bounty hunter and former Union soldier Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and the alleged new sheriff of Red Rock, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins). Taking refuge in the…
Of the infamous Star Wars prequel trilogy, George Lucas has often said that the three movies were like poetry, each film rhyming with its equivalent in the original trilogy. With all due respect to Mr. Lucas (who seems a thoroughly decent fellow), the claims to cinematic rhyme fit better on The Force Awakens than the trilogy he wrote and directed. The Force…
At the time I publish this, I– and likely some of you as well– am a day away from seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that’s almost too much to believe. I mean, it feels like we as a movie watching public have been talking about this movie forever at this point, and in a sense…
Rooster Illusion 