Category: Reviews

In this week’s episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, entitled Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the ragtag group of space-rogues […]

Stipulated: The Armenian genocide, in which some 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Ottoman government (we call it Turkey now) […]

The most prominent theme in the Fast and the Furious movies isn’t family (they didn’t come up with that until a few […]

What kind of lazy, lowest-common-denominator movie is Going in Style? The kind where the one F-word in the script is delivered […]

Futuristic cyber-thriller Ghost in the Shell is loaded with advanced technology, but it’s in the service of a disappointingly basic plot with […]

Trainspotting, a cult favorite since the moment it arrived 21 years ago, was Danny Boyle’s second movie and most of the […]

The only way Disney’s live-action remake of its own Beauty and the Beast works is if you don’t compare it to the […]

Kong: Skull Island is about people barging into a place they’ve never been before, dropping bombs to see how solid the […]

Logan is the third standalone film for Hugh Jackman’s knife-fisted X-Men maverick Wolverine, completing the weary trilogy with something fans have […]

There is a certain movie formula where an ordinary man must do something illegal and dangerous (usually to save a loved […]

A movie about an African-American boyfriend visiting his white girlfriend’s family home sounds like a hackneyed drama about race relations in […]

Gore Verbinski has directed three Pirates of the Caribbean movies and The Lone Ranger, plus The Ring, Rango, and Mousehunt, as well […]