It: Chapter Two Review – Whatever Floats Your Boat
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling.
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling.
The X-Men series has felt like a bit of a misfire from the very start. Even by the convoluted standards of comic book fare, the ensemble pieces never quite managed to thread the needle between world-building and giving each member...
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‘Victor Frankenstein’ is a movie that tries to reinvent the old Mary Shelley tale, but the filmmakers don’t seem certain of how or why they want to do that. The flick announces that we know this story, then never...
Last year, ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’ premiered at film festivals as a two-part opus. It depicted the disintegration of a relationship from the perspective of each side (called ‘Him’ and ‘He...
Held together by a legitimately fantastic performance by James McAvoy, ‘Filth’ is a bad-cop movie that, if nothing else, lives up to the promise of its title. This may be the best adaptation of an Irvine Welsh novel si...
By the time the credits roll on the last screening of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ this weekend, plenty of people in sold-out theaters across the planet will have a new favorite ‘X-Men’ movie. Packed with a...
Danny Boyle is one of my favorite filmmakers of the last twenty years. His unique style and ability to work in different genres have not only earned him critical praise and awards, but have shown that he has limitless talent to en...
During my brief and utterly unsuccessful attempts to pitch scripts in Hollywood, one of the most common responses I heard from development execs and producers was, “Yeah, that’s a cool idea, but it’s got to be a ...