A couple weeks ago, Devin Faraci of Badass Digest wrote up a piece that delved into the problems filmgoers might find in the climactic sequences of recent war movie Fury. He’s not the only one…
The cast and crew’s names went across the screen in as I coaxed circulation back into my lower body. The ringing in my ears (it was a very enthusiastic IMAX setup) subsided. Only one thought passed…
I’m kind of a sucker for journalism movies. Stuff like Good Night and Good Luck, or Capote, or the arguably-best-ever The Insider. From the brief trailer glimpses and review snippets, Nightcrawler looked to cover the dark side…
Rightly or wrongly, I sorta feel a responsibility to weigh in on significant pieces of Star Wars news. Probably because my taste in those movies is all wrong but so, so right. Star Wars Rebels…
And now, as part two of Historical Mecha-Fiction Tuesday, I bring you “Great martian war.” Most of you are probably familiar with H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. If not, please excuse yourself to the nearest…
(Source) Just a heads-up: This post is the first of a two-part series I’m calling “Historical Mecha-Fiction Tuesday,” because I’m bad at this. Part One of Historical Mecha-Fiction Tuesday comprises a series of totally badass…
Let’s not mince words: Gone Girl was straight brilliant. Easily top-five material for 2014, at least as of this writing. And while I’m sure much of the movie’s brilliance should be attributed to novelist/screenwriter Gillian Flynn,…
Like pretty much everybody around here, I’m a self-professed movie fan. To a lesser extent, I’m willing to additionally self-identify as a genre fan and a few other sub-categories of “fan.” So there’s a sort…
I always forget that most people think of Mel Gibson as an actor. Not that I don’t understand why. That’s how we first found him; he’s been in several classics and even more not-classics. I…