Movie Reviews Archive
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation shouldn’t work. It’s the fifth installment of an action franchised based on a cheesy 60s television show. The protagonist is 53 years old. And it is rehashing a lot of the concepts and ideas that you’ve seen in previous Mission: Impossible films,
If you’ve ever seen a boxing movie (or an underdog story in general), you can see every story beat coming in Southpaw from a mile away. The story feels like a lazy man’s Rocky III. It follows Billy “The Great” Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), an undefeated championship boxer
The film’s title, Paper Towns, refers to a trick used by cartographers to prevent other mapmakers from copying their hard work. The cartographers would create fake towns – a.k.a. “paper towns” – so that if those faux cities popped up on someone else’s map, they’d know they
Like many people, my excitement for Ant-Man waned greatly after writer/director Edgar Wright abruptly left the project last year. Ant-Man, as a character, doesn’t have much appeal to me, but I’m a huge fan of Wright’s work, which includes Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The
On paper, teaming writer/star Amy Schumer with director/producer Judd Apatow seems like a perfect match. Schumer has become something of an Internet darling for her sketch comedy show Inside Amy Schumer, which combines edgy humor with strong feminist undertones, while Apatow has directed great adult comedies that
