Deadpool 2?is the best sequel film I’ve seen, maybe ever. It’s hilarious (but not as funny as the first) with an extraordinary sense of itself. Here, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool is seeking to find his place in the new world, or in the old world with a new him, diving into a journey that takes him…
Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) are competitive, unlike anyone you know… I think. They compete at everything, loving games, and drawing their friends into competition, too. But when Brooks (Kyle Chandler), Max’s older brother, rolls into town, their group of friends embarks on a murder mystery night that unravels as Brooks is kidnapped…
The 15:17 to Paris made news for two reasons. The first was that Clint Eastwood cast the real-life trio of young men who stopped a terrorist attack aboard a train while on vacation as themselves. The second was that unlike many films that document recent real-life situations, this one had mere minutes to cover from…
Warner Bros.’ Archive Collection releases, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and While the City Sleeps, are the latest in a batch of ‘old school’ dramas in black and white that film fans will investigate for nuggets of past glory and drama. In the first, a newspaper reporter sets out to expose the fragile, tenuous state of…
Den of Thieves?is a gritty crime thriller about a gang of violent criminals and the cops who pursue them. Ray Merriman (Pablo Schreiber, half-brother to Liev) has been leading a gang in forcibly executed thefts of armored truck loads and plans to rob the Federal Reserve. Donnie (O’Shea Jackson,?Straight Outta Compton), Levi (50 Cent), Bo…
Now?this?is what the feature-length, live-action version of?Suicide Squad?should’ve looked like: an angry, battling, spiritually-aware group of misfits and criminals who claw their way through all of their mistakes to find a taste of redemption on the other side. Funny, creative, and more grounded in the original comic book source material, DC’s feature-length animated film?Suicide Squad:…
Paul King returned to the world of the marmalade-loving bear, Paddington, as director and writer, and spun a tale that’s just as enchanting as the first live-action take on Michael Bond’s conscientious and kind-hearted character. This time, Paddington (Ben Whishaw voicing) is part-detective/part-convict as he tracks the nefarious actor and thief, Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant),…
Barbara (Madison Wolfe) is a delightfully nuanced young woman who wrestles with a??Dungeons & Dragons?… that no one else can see. In I Kill Giants, a film adapted by Joe Kelly from his own comic book (co-authored with Ken Niimura), Barbara fights against giants that she alone can see, while tangling with ‘typical’ middle school…
Based on Ross Macdonald’s novel The Moving Target,?Harper?(1966)?was Paul Newman’s starring turn as the detective who would pursue missing persons and find the truth. In the vein of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, Harper is an adaptation of Archer, Macdonald’s creation, by renowned screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, All the President’s…
Aquaman, the least appreciated member of the Justice League, finally has a standalone movie. Based on the stories of the man who is the result of a tryst between a lighthouse keeper and an Atlantean queen,?Aquaman?swims up with spectacular CGI?and?a ridiculously complex story in a superhero universe. While new fans might need the intro to…
