Marvel has stretched itself out to many different styles over the last few years. Fantasy, comedy, spy thrillers, heists, period pieces, nothing is off limits when it comes to their films. But, despite this, they manage to maintain consistency across them that is quite impressive. There are many elements that they use to keep this […]
So Fantastic Four, or Fant4stic, or whatever they’re calling it is bombing pretty hard in theaters right now. The blame is bouncing around multiple parties now: from the execs, to the director, and even to the studio itself. Everyone’s looking for a scapegoat. Strangely enough, the minority voice in this shout-fest has been “do we […]
Fox’s reboot of the Fantastic Four is out in theaters this week. Before its release, Fantastic Four has been a very troubled production from the outset: the production was criticized for having a young cast and casting Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm. 20th Century Fox’s lack of promotion for the movie and embargoing reviews for […]
The promotional push for the new Fantastic Four movie is hitting full steam as we near its release date of August 7th. It’s still a little too early for reviews to come in so it’s hard to tell whether there is a good movie in store or not. As most know, this is a reboot […]
I just saw Disney/Marvel’s Ant-man! While I had a few issues with it, there was one that really stuck with me. It’s an issue that I’ve had with the MCU as a whole for a while. No, not its villains. Well, actually, yeah kinda of. So this is a little spoiler, but Hydra shows up […]
Video games are a multi-billion dollar industry, providing us with some of the most famous characters in pop-culture and have been a part of our childhoods since the 1970s. Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Pixels takes the premise of aliens invading Earth and flips it with real life versions of computer game characters like Pac-man, Donkey […]
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal has been impressing audiences since his breakthrough role in 2001’s sci-fi head-trip Donnie Darko. It was already apparent in that cult film that he displayed an insight and maturity beyond his young age. Over the past 15 years, Gyllenhaal has been building a steady resume of diverse and interesting performances. From intense […]
Comic Con International bestowed upon us a glut of new trailers and images and genocide metaphors. Amongst such gifts we received the first trailer for DC’s upcoming Suicide Squad movie. Overall? Not bad. Different than how I expected it to be. However, if you’ve read the title you have already realized that we’re here to […]
We have a good bunch of new releases this week and a couple Criterion selections thrown in for good measure. However our pick of the week goes to the Mission: Impossible Quadrilogy. New Releases: Survivor – (DVD and Blu-ray) The Forger – (DVD and Blu-ray) Pound of Flesh – (DVD and Blu-ray) Mission: Impossible Quadrilogy – (DVD and Blu-ray) […]
Based on a manga that the anime legend Hayao Miyazaki wrote himself, the post-apocalyptical fantasy Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, is one of his first movies. Though Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was released before the foundation of Studio Ghibli, it is the first movie in the Studio Ghibli collection. Set 1000 […]
