Tim Robinson makes the leap to the big-screen with this wild indie comedy co-starring Paul Rudd at his most charming. PLOT: A suburban dad (Tim Robinson) becomes hellbent on being BFFs with his charismatic new neighbour (Paul Rudd). REVIEW: Confession time – this movie is my introduction to Tim Robinson. Sure, I’ve had folks name-drop … Read more
With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice a smash hit, it’s time to take a look back at some Michael Keaton movies you might not have seen! One of the best things to happen in Hollywood in recent years is that Michael Keaton’s career got a major second wind (but don’t call it a comeback) after a somewhat lower-key … Read more
It’s always a delight when classic movies receive a 4K release. Sony’s The Lady from Shanghai 4K release brings Orson Welles‘ 1947 film noir to UHD for the first time. While it isn’t the director’s best work, it has an incredible ending, several stellar performances, and remains a fun watch (even if the plot gets … Read more
The landscape of television is vast and varied, and with new shows coming out basically every single day, and streaming apps allowing us to watch the classics, there’s an endless amount of it out there, both good and bad. If you watch enough TV and read enough articles about it, it’s not hard to figure … Read more
In the leadup to Alien: Romulus, I’ve been watching, reading, and playing every piece of Alien content available. Yes, even Alien Resurrection. For the second time in my life, I popped in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s controversial movie, hoping to discover a misunderstood gem. Has the film gotten better over the last two and a half decades? … Read more
Ferrell and McKay would go on to have other hits—“Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Step Brothers,” “The Other Guys”—that also skewered their male characters’ idiocy. And while those movies also incorporated funny actresses, none of those characters—not even Amy Adams’ endearing, nerdy Susan from “Talladega Nights”—was the perfect combination of sensible, sexy and … Read more
Uncanny X-Men #185 is one of those issues that every longtime X-Men nerd knows, like Giant-Size X-Men #1 (the introduction of Nightcrawler, Colossus, Storm), or Uncanny X-Men #4 (the debut of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants), or The New Mutants #87 (the first appearance of Cable). In Uncanny #185, anti-mutant government stooge Henry Peter Gyrich tries to use a mutant-power neutralizer on Rogue, but accidentally zaps her teammate Storm … Read more
Movies and television, despite the fact that both are mediums where actors reenacting usually fictional scenarios are recorded on cameras and screened for rapt audiences, are not the same. They’re completely different mechanisms for storytelling — one is obviously longer than the other, with more of an emphasis on character and story evolution, while the … Read more
Palpatine successfully uses the arsonist-firefighter strategy more times as the saga unfolds. In “Attack of the Clones,” all the stuff involving the separatist movement (led by former Jedi Count Dooku) is an elaborate long con. It’s intended to confront the Galactic Senate with a threat so immense that they’ll vote to give Chancellor “emergency powers” to … Read more
We celebrate Louis Gossett Jr’s legacy with a look at five of his best films for the eighties and nineties. Earlier today, we were sad to hear that veteran character actor Louis Gossett Jr had passed away at 87. While we have to get used to the fact that our favorite actors are all human, … Read more