Lately, Hollywood seems content to reboot or extend what has already been done. But the decision to reach back into MGM’s vault in the 1960s and draw from the Cold War seemed like a strange decision. With the casting of?Man of Steel’s?Henry Cavill as the U.S. agent Napoleon Solo, Warner Bros. set up the odd…
Our ability to think, talk, reason, question, and make sense of the world wouldn?t exist if not for the brain. And yet, with all the scientific advancements in our technologically rich society, we still don?t know very much about it. But perhaps that is changing.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I stood there in the video section of Sam Goody, debating.? I had twenty bucks in my pocket so the $9.99 price tag wasn’t the intimidating part.? That wasn’t the reason my stomach fluttered and knotted all at the same time.? It was because I didn’t know if…
He could’ve just as easily played Santa Claus. He was big and happy and gentle and he could’ve made the perfect Kris Kringle. But instead, he became famous by wearing the skin from other people’s faces and hanging victims on meat hooks. His name was Gunnar Hansen, but most folks only know him as Leatherface.?…
My All-American has the ability to become something bigger than the sum of its parts. But it’s missing something that prevents it from getting there.
You’re seven years old and your entire existence has been contained in a garden shed. You and your mother name each of the elements of your life and they become your friends. Your mother tries to protect you and keep you from danger, but one day, she realizes that she cannot. You do not know…
The James Bond canon has reached the end of Daniel Craig’s run- he will most definitely not be back. So where does?Spectre?fall on the spectrum? What are there greatest films featuring the suave British spy? Which films should never have been made? The Duds: #24 through #17 — There’s a whole lot of Roger Moore?here….
Amy Schumer’s team-up with Judd Apatow,?Trainwreck, arrived on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD without the fanfare that it might have a few months ago. A casualty in another theater shooting, the film deserves more attention, even if it is a jumbled cocktail that fails to completely blend. Schumer’s insights?are?powerful and funny, even if we don’t…
The dead are alive. Those ominous words are what first greet you in Spectre, the latest entry into the world of Bond, James Bond. And they are definitely intentional. Directed once again by Sam Mendes, Spectre picks up the action soon after the events of 2012?s Skyfall as Bond (Daniel Craig) is left dealing with…
As the one person I know who enjoyed?Terminator: Salvation, I was sure that I would find something to like in the universally panned fifth installment of the franchise. Here, future John Connor (Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in time to save Connor’s mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke, no relation except to the Targaryens),…
