From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. […]
There’s something that never grows old about seeing an apex predator do its thing in the world of puny humans. Kong: Skull Island offers many of the usual tropes inherent in monster movies, but also delivers more than enough new twists and turns on the King Kong genre to make this new offering entertaining and […]
As a public service, the following review may contain some spoilers. I suppose it was inevitable that there would be an Assassin’s Creed movie. After approximately 97 iterations of the video game series and no small share of love from the fan community, it was bound to happen. It’s just a shame that the scriptwriting […]
The following review contains no spoilers. Dear Santa, I thought, as I eased my bulk into a theater seat and prepared to watch Rogue One, Disney’s latest addition to the Star Wars saga. Please let this one be better than Episode Seven. My invoking of that holiday myth was by process of elimination. Star Wars […]
As many of you know, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opened this weekend, debuting to $75 million at the domestic box office. This movie had a lot to live up to as the latest addition to a well-established and beloved franchise. The good news is that Fantastic Beasts definitely does live up to that […]
It’s an exciting few weeks for great movies, and my theater budget is going to be exhausted by Christmas. But it’s so worth it! I had the good fortune of seeing Marvel’s Doctor Strange a week early, at the EW Popfest, and really enjoyed it. It was fun, mind-bending, thought-provoking, and beautifully shot. Benedict Cumberbatch […]
Oscar Madly hovers on the brink of adulthood – destabilized by his dysfunctional parents, unsure of his sexuality, and haunted by horrific images of a tragic gay bashing he witnessed as a child. A talking hamster, imagination and the prospect of love help him confront his surreal demons and discover himself. Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster […]
Z Nation is an Asylum production, but they outdid themselves with the Z Nation TV movie, titled “No Mercy”. While “No Mercy” does not follow-up where the season two finale left of, it does give us a closer look at our favorite characters, introduce us to new characters who might be in the next season, and […]
Suicide Squad: A movie review of DC’s newest film. I hate to be such a skeptic, but DC movies have scorned fans in the past so it’s hard to be an optimist. Since the beginning of Suicide Squad’s inception I have been hesitant. The actors were decent and the preview looked alright, but something about […]
Here Be Mild Spoilers in this movie review of Star Trek: Beyond. You’ve been warned. Let me start by saying that I had my doubts going into Star Trek: Beyond. I had been pretty disappointed by Star Trek: Into Darkness, and I was afraid, judging by the trailers where I saw the Enterprise breaking apart […]
