2012’s Jack Reacher was a bit of a sleeper hit. Based a the novel by Lee Child, it eschewed typical action movie clichés by delivering hard, brutal, and tightly choreographed fight scenes, keeping a high level of suspense, and ...
The most common fear people have is the fear of the dark. Some people grow out of it and some don’t; but the newest horror flick Lights Out preys upon it. Based on the short film by David F. Sandberg, Lights Out centers on a fa...
I have a confession which I feel my readers should be aware of: I haven’t gone to the movies much lately. Sure I loved Captain America: Civil War and a few others this year like 10 Cloverfield Lane, Hail Caesar! and The N...
No other genre captures an audience like the horror genre. When done right, a horror film has the ability to clear your mind and magnetize you to the screen. Work, bills, friends, all of them disappear when that big bad boogie ...
The X-Men film franchise has a long history of providing quality superhero films with just a few misfires. The newest addition to the series, X-Men: Apocalypse, unfortunately fits in with X-Men: Last Stand and Origins: Wolverin...
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of the latest Marvel film. And in the hype, it’s also easy to start throwing out a lot of superlatives, saying things like, “Age of Ultron is the best MCU movie yet,” when that...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has its moments, but overall, it feels like the dawn of mediocrity more than anything else.
Self-awareness, raunchy comedy, and good, ol’ fashioned trash kicking. These are the things that define Deadpool, one of Marvel Comics’ most interesting and unique characters. And finally, after a botched attempt in 2009’s X-Me...
He’s played a famed filmmaker in The Aviator, an undercover cop working to infiltrate an Irish mafia in The Departed and a notorious stockbroker in The Wolf of Wall Street; and still none of these roles have been enough t...