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Daniel Craig, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fienes (SPOILERS) Daniel Craig’s James Bond series came out with a bang and presented a thesis of re-imagining that it has since fallen from. Casino Royale was a statement against camp and illogic. Skyfall painted Bond as a complex hero facing extinction in a world that’s moved on from ColdContinueContinue reading “SPECTRE – A Lukewarm Plate of Brand Leftovers”

Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton Almost nothing works. The actors are wasted, the stunts are borrowed, the script is gaping with plot holes and the run time is too long by half an hour. Need for Speed is the live-action film adaptation of the long-running racing video game franchise of the same name. ItContinueContinue reading “NEED FOR SPEED – All the Fun of Watching Someone Else Play Videogames”

Don Cheadle, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, like… a lot of people This is the kind of movie you learn to tolerate because it will live in popular culture for basically ever. (*cough* Star Trek Into Darkness *cough*) See it again on Netflix, Sunday afternoon TNT, whatever. It exists, goddammit, and you might as well forgiveContinueContinue reading “Avengers: Age of Ultron – Muddled and Kinda Stupid”

Clark Gregg, and others. I don’t know. As usual I’m late to the party; I’m about six episodes in. But here are my first impressions. Marvel’s Agents of Shield pretty much begs for the Firefly comparison. The cast is similar; the set is similar. It is, in plain sight, a spiritual successor to Joss Whedon’sContinueContinue reading “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D – Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Firefly”

Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Evan Green, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jessica Alba SPOILERS Mull this over: The Dark Knight is the best superhero movie ever made. But Sin City is the best comic book movie ever made. It popped off the page and onto the screen. It rippled with highly stylized violence and cartoon conceits. Shots wereContinueContinue reading “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – The Magic’s Gone”