FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)
byThere’s no way to argue otherwise; the main reason a Fantastic Four reboot’s been made is so the rights can stay with 20th Century Fox. The situation is…
Film Review
A collection of articles concerning film review or retrospectives.
IT FOLLOWS (2014)
byIt Follows opens with a shot of a quiet, average suburban street, with the seeming calm of the camera’s slow pan across the neighbourhood interrupted by…
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015)
byThere’s never enough at stake in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It whizzes along at a quip-a-minute, with stunning stunts from handsome Tom Cruise, and a…
SOUTHPAW (2015)
byThere’s a theory espoused by former Grantland editor Bill Simmons that sometimes people are just ready for certain movies; that the success of some films…
WATERWORLD (1995)
byWaterworld still evokes feelings of cinematic misfortune, two decades after the post-apocalyptic action film’s summer release, but time’s been kind to this 1995 ‘flopbuster’. Indeed, despite its…
INSIDE OUT (2015)
byIt’s hard to imagine there’ll be a film this year as inventive and audacious as Pixar’s newest offering Inside Out. That might seem like a…
CLUELESS (1995)
byIf you were a teenager in the 1990s, there’s a big possibility you still use lines from Clueless in your everyday life. Between “As if!”…
ANT-MAN (2015)
byAnt-Man, the newest film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a little rougher around the edges than some of the studio’s recent offerings, but it…
THE VOICES (2014)
byThoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium episode “The Mikado”),…
KNOCK KNOCK (2015)
byWith Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out of porn. Set…
TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)
byFairly early into Terminator Genisys, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pops utters this line to Emilia Clarke’s Sarah Connor: “This is a meaningless gesture. To hold onto something…
MINIONS (2015)
byThe question Minions needed to answer was whether the cute Despicable Me critters are compelling and amusing enough to carry their own film. It’s hard to argue…