The major complaint leveled at the current crop of Marvel movies (aside from a tendency towards shallow villains and the overstuffing of movies with set-ups for other movies), is about the large, city smashing, collateral damaging stakes of the exploits. While Daredevil and Age of Ultron addressed that first issue, Ant-Man feels like a movie made squarely to challenge that last…
In the past few years I have made no secret of the fact that I harbor a deep, undying, unabashed love and reverence for old monster movies, particularly those produced by Universal Studios in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and anything starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and/or Peter Cushing. As such, I shan’t repeat myself…
The moment when it becomes completely clear that the universe surrounding the tortuous week-long Wimbledon showdown between tennis players Aaron Williams (Andy Samberg) and Charles Poole (Kit Harington) is every bit as ridiculous as the tennis match itself is during a part in which Williams stands on trial in a Swedish court and the court…
Previous Installments Believe it or not, there are times when reviewing movies made ten years ago based on the works of the most-reviewed writer in history, for free, for a limited readership is not the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done with my life. Other times, it means I get to watch a movie starring…
I was going to do a movie review this week, but due to the recent Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality in the states a couple of Fridays ago, I felt this was an appropriate article. It is much too difficult in this day and age to find a good story, whatever the medium, that promotes…
Baddie: Cancer! Lesson: People are friends, not science experiments. Remember that time I said I was going to review shark movies all month? Yeah, well, I lied, because the new Tarsem Singh movie came out and my loyalties split. Repeat readers know that my favorite movie of all time is The Fall, a Singh movie. His other endeavors…
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular characters in all of fiction. IMDb credits him with 301 screen appearances, which puts him ahead of other prominent British figures like King Arthur, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Robin Hood, but still over 200 appearances behind Dracula. When a character reaches such a high level of familiarity in…
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