The Ray Rice Video Affected This Week’s Movie Releases?
What if I told you that the release of the horrific Ray Rice elevator video this week altered this week’s movie releases? Well, it…
The End of Summer Movies, Or, “Now what?”
The End of Summer Movies For moviegoers, the fall season is historically the worst part of the year, rivaled only by the weeks between mid-January…
A Brief History of the Found Footage Film
“As Above/So Below” is the latest release in the “found footage” genre, a film with a conceit that what we are watching is…
The Aging Action Star
It’s happening a lot these days. Pierce Brosnan’s “The November Man” hits theaters this Friday. Liam Neeson has kept his career chugging along because…
Sin City & the Sexy Comic Book Movie
When Robert Rodriguez unleashed “Sin City,” his version of the comic book movie, on the world in 2005, the most R rated the…
5 Robin Williams Movies You Haven’t Seen
If you love movies you’re probably stunned at the death of Robin Williams. He’s one of our greatest comedians whose decades of work…
Get on the Line: The Musician Biopic
The James Brown biopic “Get On Up” hit theaters last weekend, and its treatment of the Godfather of Soul has largely flown under the…
Michael Bay and the Modern Action Franchise
The rebooted “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise is more than another attempt to cash in on an established pop culture comic book nostalgia property….
“Guardians of the Galaxy” and the Sexy Alien
In some sense it’s ironic that Zoe Saldana ended up in green body paint for her role as Gamora in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”…
Comic Con and the Hype Machine
Growing up a pretty major movie and comics geek, I always envisioned the day that my favorite comic superheroes would get big-screen versions. Sure,…