Samuel L. Jackson
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is everything I hoped this release would be—actually, it was more than I hoped it would be.
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Look. I grew up on the Garfield comic strip, as my parents were Washington Post subscribers when I was a kid. My oldest sister had a scrapbook filled with early Garfield strips, back when he was a little more svelte, not the rotund, jovial character everyone knew from the mid-‘80s onward. My parents bought me […]
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The trouble with David Fincher’s seminal 1995 horror thriller Se7en is that it spawned all the knockoffs. Its “serial killer taunts detectives” trope isn’t a new thing by any stretch of the imagination (reminder: Se7en was only four years separated from another linchpin detective procedural, The Silence of the Lambs), but in the words of […]
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What utter joy The Marvels brings to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! For a blithe 105 minutes, we get all the requisite action and hilarity we’ve come to know and love from the best of the MCU, but we also get a playfulness that escaped even the most lighthearted of the 32 films preceding it. It’s […]
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I’m going to put it as bluntly as I can: The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is all show, little go. But what show there is can be at least defined as “entertaining” and “it does its job,” if you were a fan of the first film. (I was.) There’s not much to either of these movies; […]
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Let me explain a bit about my experiences with the Saw franchise. My wife and I saw the first film in theaters shortly after we were married in 2004. It frayed our nerves so much, she couldn’t speak to me as we walked out after the film’s closing credits. On the way to the car, […]
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There’s not much about The Hitman’s Bodyguard you haven’t seen in some form or another in preceding films. Lead character falls from grace and spends the whole movie trying to redeem himself? Been there. Two characters bickering constantly throughout and have to drop their egos to work together? Done that. Its plot, a race to […]
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This review started at a 2.5-star rating, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: the more I think about and analyze the movie, the more I like about it. At first, I thought there are major issues keeping this film from being absolutely great, but some of those issues are also part of […]
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children may be summed up by this simple statement: Tim Burton does Guillermo Del Toro. That notion alone is worth a trip to the cinema to catch this larger-than-life spectacle of fantasy, horror, and adventure, as the film blends the best of Burton’s whimsy found in Edward Scissorhands (to be […]
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I’m in a weird spot with The Hateful Eight, as it’s a beautiful, ugly, crass, vulgar, thrilling, suspenseful, and nigh uncomfortable film to sit through. The film’s greatest achievement is holding an uneasy tension until the “Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino” credit shows up at the end, and that’s not a simple task, given […]
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