Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a special kind of terrible, the sort of bad movie you watch with your jaw agape as your brain melts out of your ears. If that sounds painful, just try sitting through this 141-minute endurance test. Taron Egerton returns as Eggsy, the streetwise teen-turned-super-spy who works for Kingsman, […]
MAGIC MIKE XXL New Movie Review
The problem with the first Magic Mike is that, when the dancing stopped, the movie was kind of a drag. You have to give director Steven Soderbergh credit for what he pulled off: creating a drama about the lives of male strippers, based on the experiences of star Channing Tatum, could have been an embarrassment. […]
New Movie Review: Jupiter Ascending’s only hope is as a cult movie
It was the jacket that pushed me over the edge. Sure, I had a silly, bemused grin on my face for the first half of Jupiter Ascending, but I kept from laughing outright as long as I could. At least, until I saw that jacket. The set-up alone is a stitch: Mila Kunis plays Jupiter […]
STEP UP ALL IN New Movie Review
I’ve never criticized a Bruce Lee movie for having a weak plot and poor dialogue, because those things are beside the point. Witnessing Lee’s artistry as a physical performer is the strength of his movies, which rise or fall based on how well the camera captures his every move. Dance movies, for the most part, are […]
22 JUMP STREET New Movie Review
Sequelitus could be defined as a real movie illness, a case of a cinematic narrative continuing in the form of a bigger, louder, needless follow-ups, created to establish “tent poles” and new franchises. Most successful films have spawned a sequel, and most of them are unfortunate. But I’ve always loved the idea of sequels, since […]
Summer 2014 Movie Preview
It’s been 25 years since the landmark Summer of Sequels swept America. The movie season of May-September 1989 had a then-record eight sequels in theaters (including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and created lines that famously stretched far outside the theaters. Most memorably, Bat-Mania took over the world, as Tim Burton’s Batman set the standard […]