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Angelina Jolie is magnificent as Maleficent
Maleficent was beautifully complex, full of depth, light and darkness. The story, Disney’s latest in a growing vein of films featuring a strong, independent female hero, faltered briefly in the second act, but the third act was as strong as any I’ve seen. Directed by Robert Stromberg, whose first direction highlights his previous visual effects […]
A Million Ways to Die in the West finds a dozen ways to laugh
A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane’s epic western comedy presented a million ways to kill a joke. Fortunately, in the barrage of gags enough stuck the landing to keep the film from being terrible. Somehow I suspect MacFarlane understood exactly what he was doing. Comedic the film was all over the […]
Box Office Report May 27th
In this Box Office Report X-Men enjoys a hefty $110.5 million opening weekend, well beyond the second place Godzilla. Chef made a jump from 15 to 9 after opening in several new theatres. Aside from that, the only other interesting news from the Box Office is Frozen overtaking Iron Man 3 to settle in as […]
We are saddened to report the loss of Jeff Michael Vice
Many of us are here are grief-stricken today. Last night we got some bad news about a friend and peer. Yesterday Utah film critic Jeff Michael Vice passed unexpectedly. He was a staple panelist for the Geekshow Podcast (dot com), a contributing writer for MSN’s parallel universe, Big Shiny Robot, and most recently Cinephiled. He, […]
Doctor Who who returns in August
The BBC has released the first teaser trailer for the newest season of Doctor Who, and officially announced the series return in August. The teaser itself doesn’t show much, it’s far too much of a tease but as fans of the Doctor, we tend to lap up anything the BBC will give us. A few […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past delivers thrills, laughs, and Quicksilver.
X-Men: Days of Future past may very well be the best yet of the X-Men franchise. It is, at the very least, the entry I have enjoyed the most. It felt more complete, and well rounded than any of its predecessors. Neither weighed down with origin stories nor over burdened with multiple new characters. Or […]
Tom Hardy phones it in, and drives Locke home
Locke is a restrained and uniquely raw film. It is simultaneously difficult to watch and impossible to ignore. Emotionally it feels agonizingly real and almost unbearably frustrating. Tom Hardy delivers what I believe to be his best performance yet, essentially performing the equivalent of the tango without a partner, tied to a chair. Hardy plays […]
Box Office Report May 19th
In this Box Office Report Godzilla stops into first place with a tidy $93 million opening weekend, far outpacing the second weekend Neighbors, and the third week Spider-Man. Disney’s Million Dollar Arm made a courtesy showing in the top ten, along with the rest of the sup $10 million pack. New on Blu-Ray and DVD […]
Game of Thrones: Mockingbird
Mockingbird, episode 7, was not the sigh of relief I was expecting after the amazing close last week. It was, instead, a stunning gasp of realization as significant plot points were revealed to the audience, and to the characters. In the seven presented scenes, enough was revealed to see where events are leading. Traditionally this […]
Godzilla will smash his way into your heart
Godzilla is absolutely everything you could, or should, expect from a movie titled Godzilla. That is monstrous amounts of fun. Any serious complaints I could make bounce off the subject matter as if Godzilla really could not give less of a damn what anyone thinks. He is like a pre-historic irradiated and mutated gargantuan honey […]
Salt Lake Comic Con announces first guests
Last September the first Salt Lake Comic Con was a much larger success than anyone expected. next came the Fan Xperience, which blew the roof off the Salt Palace Convention Center with attendance breaching the 100,000 mark. Now is time for the second anual Salt Lake Comic Con. The initial guest lists includes; Christopher Lloyd, […]
Box Office Report: May 12
In this weeks Box Office Report some Neighbors knock Spider-Man from his web with a sound $49 million opening weekend, leaving only $35.5 for the Amazing Man-Spider. Aside from the new additions of Moms’ Night Out and Legends of Oz this weekend looked a lot like last weekend. May 9–11 TW LW Title Weekend […]
Game of Thrones: The Laws of Gods and Men
If there was a time to praise the pained performance of Peter Dinklage, again, that time is now. He dominated everyone and everything in this episode, in just the last ten minutes. You can watch the entire episode if you like, that is if you haven’t already; it was good, many very interesting, even […]
Box Office Report May 5th
This week’s Box Office Report saw a spider almost catch a captain. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opened with $91.6 millions just shy of Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s $95 million. The Other Woman managed to hang onto second place, while Captain America slipped from second to fourth, because just about everyone has seen it. Meanwhile […]
Game of Thrones: First of His Name
As far as mid-season episodes go, this one was less bang and more a slow burn. The past four episodes have been on about the same pace as well. After three stellar seasons, I am inclined to trust David Benioff & D. B. Weiss but I am beginning to wonder where they are taking us. […]
