The Most Disappointing Action Movies Of The Last 10 Years
2016 has already brought about some pretty disappointing action flicks. London Has Fallen was an unintelligent joke; Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice was a spiritless disaster; and early reports on...
View ArticleNeighbors 2: Sorority Rising
In a sea of bad movies about college frat houses, Neighbors 2 rises to the top alongside decent movies like Animal House and Old School. This is the kind of movie you honestly don’t expect much from....
View ArticleThe Nice Guys
Witness originality in a summer full of sequels and reboots with The Nice Guys, pairing the unlikely and hilarious duo, Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. If you told me that a dark detective comedy set...
View ArticleAngry Birds: The Movie
For some weird reason (probably because he has kids), William went to see Angry Birds. Now it just seems like he’s a really angry bird. Last weekend was just another opening day weekend in May with...
View ArticleX-Men: Apocalypse
Is X-Men: Apocalypse the big screen stinker of a comic book adaptation that everyone keeps saying it is? Well, yes, and no, says Ian Goodwillie. In a blockbuster season packed with sequels,...
View ArticleHigh-Rise
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, based on the ‘unfilmable’ JG Ballard novel, is a boldly realized vision and a biting, knowing comment on where capitalism takes us. High-Rise opens with the monstrous concrete...
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Purple Rain (The Movie)
After Prince’s passing, we sat down and watched the movie that helped launch his career to iconic status — the bizarre and hilarious Purple Rain. After the death of Prince, society collectively sifted...
View ArticleTMNT: Out of the Shadows
We begrudgingly check back in with our heroes in a halfshell to find that Michael Bay and company are leaning hard on the 90s cartoon. Saying this movie is better than the first isn’t saying much. But...
View ArticleNow You See Me 2
Here comes the much anticipated, long awaited sequel to 2013’s Now You See Me! Wait. Does anyone even remember that there was a first movie? The first problem this unlikely film franchise has going...
View ArticleWarcraft
Did Warcraft beat the curse of the video game movie adaptation? Well, it’s tolerable. But just barely. Get back to the old drawing board, guys. Video game film adaptations have a terrible reputation....
View ArticlePopstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, from The Lonely Island, has its moments, but its weighed down by too many factors to become a classic comedy. Expectations are a funny thing. I walked into The Nice...
View ArticleCentral Intelligence
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Kevin Hart have enough laughs and chemistry to save Central Intelligence from its own tired ideas and much overused tropes. It’s like a Hollywood producer started with the...
View ArticleFinding Dory
Finding Dory, the sequel to the smash hit Finding Nemo, shows that Pixar hasn’t lost the things that made them great in the first place. Pixar has a pretty solid pedigree. Even at their worst, their...
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I Saw the Light
I Saw the Light is another amazing performance from Tom Hiddleston, but it serves as a warning that we need to reform the biopic genre. It feels like Tom Hiddleston is all that I see on my TV anymore,...
View ArticleTickled
The new documentary Tickled, about adult tickling competitions of all things, may seem like an innocuous idea, until some more sinister underbellies are entertainingly revealed. It’s impossible to talk...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Pets
Its plot is convoluted, but The Secret Life of Pets is still an entertaining family movie with great work from Jenny Slate and Louie CK. 2016 has proven to be one hell of a year for animated features....
View ArticleGhostbusters (2016)
We weigh in on the reboot to the Ghostbusters franchise, a movie that isn’t near as bad as the entitled fanboys wanted you to think. It is official, ladies and gentlemen. We have officially entered the...
View ArticleJaws: Blockbusters and Bad Sequels
Jaws was one of the first templates for the international summer movie, but how much did the increasingly insipid sequel cash ins inspire today’s blockbusters? The world of popular cinema is stuffed...
View ArticleNeon Demon
Nicolas Winding Refn returns with Neon Demon. Does the film work or does Refn’s belief in creative narcissism threaten to take over and ruin things? I have been a fan of Nicolas Winding Refn for a few...
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Star Trek Beyond
After Star Trek Into Dumbness, the franchise needs redemption. Is director Justin Lin of Fast and Furious fame the one to give that to us? Star Trek has taken a turn in the last few years, from...
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