James Gray’s Ad Astra is mesmerizing. This quiet, big-budget sci-fi drama isn’t simply interested in space as the new frontier for exploration and the good of humanity. Instead, Ad Astra m…
Shock and Awe Movie Review: An Easily Digestible Bore
Shock and Awe exists exclusively to exploit a market for journalism movies whittled down into easily digestible, unchallenging chunks, à la James Vanderbilt’s 2015 clunker Truth. This heavy-handed pat…
10 Years Later: Still No Country for Old Men
It’s been ten years since the release of what some might refer to as Joel and Ethan Coen’s masterpiece. Released in 2007 amidst numerous politically-minded, morally serious parables about U.S.’s inter…
Movie Review: Criminal
Let’s get one thing clear about this movie. At the very least, Criminal has an interesting premise. When CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is killed in action, his superior Quaker Wells (Gary…
The Film Canon: Batman Forever (1995)
As the world waits for the next big screen iteration of the caped crusader, let’s look back and see what happened the last time the pointy-eared mask changed hands between franchises.…
The Inaccuracies of Lincoln
I first saw Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln a week after it came out in 2012, and then again this weekend, which had me wondering about the film’s inaccuracies. The film brilliantly describes the struggle …
Jon’s Movie Review: The Family
Friends are fleeting, but family is forever. No matter what trouble you’re in, your family will always be there for you. DISCLAIMER: This does not apply to your mob family, because they will kil…