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The Boss: The Melissa McCarthy Pattern

Jacob Sahms8 years ago8 years ago03 mins

Let’s consider the post-Bridesmaids?chart of Melissa McCarthy vehicles: Identity Thief?(good).?The Heat?(hilarious).?Tammy?(forgettable).?St. Vincent (good).?Spy?(hilarious). Of course, the next film is?The Boss… and it falls into the “forgettable” category, setting up McCarthy’s?next?film in the good-to-hilarious pattern. (Here’s looking at you,?Ghostbusters.) McCarthy stars as Michelle Darnell, a money-wrangling, speech-giving sociopath (okay, that’s a little strong), who tangles with…

Barbershop – The Next Cut: If We Want Change…

Jacob Sahms8 years ago8 years ago02 mins

In the third?installment of Ice Cube’s?Barbershop?series, Calvin (Cube) recognizes that if he and his friends want to keep their neighborhood safe from gangs, they must proactively do something about it. While Cedric the Entertainer, Anthony Anderson, Eve, Sean Patrick Thomas, and a few others return to the shop, they are also joined by another round…

Our Little Sister – Is Kindness What the World Needs?

Darrel Manson8 years ago8 years ago06 mins

We may not really be used to a film that doesn?t revel in the crisis of conflict. But for those who want to spend their time seeing a world where kindness reigns, Our Little Sister is a very good alternative.

The New World (2005) Criterion Collection: Malick’s Love Triangle #TBT

Jacob Sahms8 years ago8 years ago04 mins

In 2005, Terrence Malick delivered a sweeping, epic vision of the seventeenth century love triangle inhabited by the singular Native American princess Pocahontas (Q’orianka Kilcher) and her two English explorers, John Smith (Colin Farrell) and John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Thanks to the experienced?filming eyes of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and Malick’s direction, the story beautifully appears…

Elvis & Nixon: The Odd Couple?

Jacob Sahms8 years ago8 years ago02 mins

Elvis & Nixon?highlights the iconic collision of two, larger-than-life personas, as Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) gains an audience with the thirty-seventh president of the United States, Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey). Set in 1970, director Liza Johnson’s film has that “Crazy but True” featurette attached – but it’s just as much a tagline for the exploration…

Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition

Jacob Sahms8 years ago8 years ago07 mins

No movie has proved more polarizing in the history of ScreenFish than?Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. While the staff (broadly speaking) loves superhero films and many of us love comic books, the opinions on the theatrical release of?B v S are firmly located at opposite ends of the spectrum. And then?Dawn of Justice Ultimate…

Comix: Beyond The Comic Book Pages

Arnaldo Reyes8 years ago04 mins

As a comic book fan, it has been an amazing ride the last two decades. Comic books have gone from being?considered?just for kids, to a misconception of what fans are like, to box office hits and pop culture phenomenons. From movies to TV shows, there is new life in the genre like never before. You…

The Infiltrator – Follow the Money

Darrel Manson8 years ago8 years ago06 mins

Reagan era drug wars are the setting for The Infiltrator. Based on a true story, Federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) has been working undercover catching drug dealers, but thinks a more productive way to do it would be to follow the money to the t

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

Darrel Manson8 years ago8 years ago08 mins

When he developed All in the Family he created a whole new way of doing American TV. The way he describes it at one point in the film is, ?We were engaging in reality.? He wanted his shows to reflect real people acting in what he considers ?the foolishness of the human condition?.

Yep. That doesn't look haunted at all. Our heroes arrive on the ominous steps of Hell House.

The Legend of Hell House–Reluctantly Faithful

Jason Norton8 years ago010 mins

Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz. For this writer, no horror scribe can touch Richard Matheson.? From his prolific screenwriting for The Twilight Zone (16 episodes, including the most popular, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”) to his short stories (“Steel,” “Button, Button” and “The Edge”–one of the most holy-crap-drop-the-book endings ever) and novels (“A Stir of…