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Review: The Gift Features Great Suspense And Thrills
Title: The Gift Director: Joel Edgerton Screenwriter: Joel Edgerton Principal Cast: Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, David Denman, and Allison Tolman Summary: A young married couple’s lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband’s past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than 20 years. […]
Review: Shaun The Sheep is Funny And Charming For All Ages
Title: Shaun the Sheep Director: Mark Burton and Richard Starzak Screenplay: Mark Burton and Richard Starzak Summary: When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all […]
Review: Fantastic Four Fails On Every Level
Title: Fantastic Four Director: Josh Trank Screenwriter: Simon Kinberg screenplay), Jeremy Slater (screenplay),Josh Trank (screenplay), Stan Lee (characters), and Jack Kirby (characters) Principal Cast: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, and Reg E. Cathey Summary: Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form […]
Interview: Jenny Jaffe And Sarah Hartshorne Of Project UROK
If there is one thing in the world that I’m truly passionate about it is mental health. I have always tried to be fairly open with my own struggles with depression and various other ticks, but it is still a subject that makes people very uncomfortable. The idea of being diagnosed with some sort of […]
Review: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Focuses On Team Dynamics And Is Better For It
Title: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Director: Christopher McQuarrie Screenwriter: Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay and story), Drew Pearce (story), and Bruce Geller (television series) Principal Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, and Simon McBurney Summary: Ethan and the team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate — […]
Review: Vacation Is Funnier Than Expected But Not As Funny As It Needs To Be
Title: Vacation Director: John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Screenwriter: John Francis Daley (written by), Jonathan M. Goldstein (written by), and John Hughes (characters) Principal Cast: Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbibns, Chris Hemsworth, and Leslie Mann Summary: Rusty Griswold takes his own family on a road trip to “Walley World” in […]
Sundance Review: The Diary Of A Teenage Girl Handles A Creepy Concept Well
Title: The Diary of a Teenage Girl Director: Marielle Heller Screenwriter: Marielle Heller (screenplay) and Phoebe Gloeckner Principal Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, and Kristen Wiig Summary:Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comicbook artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, […]
Review: Paper Towns Has A Message I Appreciate But Lacks Proper Execution
Title: Paper Towns Director: Jake Schreier Screenwriter: John Green (author), Scott Neustadter (screenplay), and Michael H. Weber (screenplay) Principal Cast: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith, Halston Sage, and Jaz Sinclair Summary: A young man and his friend embark upon the road trip of their lives to find the missing girl next door. […]
Review: Southpaw Is A Great Character Piece Framed By Boring Boxing Sequences
Title: Southpaw Director: Antoine Fuqua Screenwriter: Kurt Sutter Principal Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence, 50 Cent, and Naomie Harris Summary:Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Willis to help him get his life back after losing his wife in a tragic accident and his daughter to child protection services. I like […]
Review: Pixels Taught Me What True Hatred Is
Title: Pixels Director: Chris Columbus Screenwriter: Tim Herlihy (screenplay and screen story), Timothy Dowling (screenplay), and Patrick Jean (short film) Principal Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, and Matt Lintz Summary: When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack Earth in the […]
Interview With Aaron Alexovich Of Invader ZIM
During San Diego Comic Con, I got the opportunity to interview Aaron Alexovich who is currently drawing the new Invader ZIM comic for Oni Press. The interview took place in a backroom that neither of us really knew existed in the Oni Press booth on the show floor. I was personally very excited about this […]
Funko FunDay Showcases The Worst Side Of Collector Culture
This is a prototype Funko Pop of Bert from Sesame Street. It isn’t much and you wouldn’t think it was worth much. It isn’t even something that is cool looking like some of the other Funko Pop’s out there. It’s also something that I managed to get during Funko FunDay 2015. And it is also […]
Review: Ant-Man Is Like The Small Scale Movies That Marvel Began With
Title: Ant-Man Director: Peyton Reed Screenwriter: Edgar Wright (screenplay and story), Joe Cornish (screenplay and story), Adam McKay (screenplay), Paul Rudd (screenplay), Stan Lee (comic book), Larry Lieber (comic book), and Jack Kirby (comic book) Principal Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Carnavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, and Michael Pena […]
Review: Mr. Holmes Reminds Us That Even Legends Die
Title: Mr. Holmes Director: Bill Condon Screenwriter: Mitch Cullin (based on the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind), Arthur Conan Doyle (character), and Jeffrey Hatcher (writer) Principal Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sananda, Hattie Morahan, and Patrick Kennedy Summary: An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back at his life, and grapples […]
Interview with Shannon Watters of Lumberjanes
I had the great privilege to interview one of the writers for one of my favorite comic books currently being published Lumberjanes. Lumberjanes, published by Boom! comics, follows a group of young women as they go on various adventures in a scout camp. After a late start due to Shannon Watters getting caught in a […]
