Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Is At Its Best When Superman’s Feet Are On the Ground
We first meet Kal-El exiting his mother’s alien vagina. It’s no different from an Earth woman’s vagina aside from, presumably,… Read More
June 13, 2013
Reviews
Review: ‘Stranger Things’ Offers an Uncomplicated Glimpse at an Unexpected Friendship
Oona (Bridget Collins) arrives at her recently deceased mother’s small, seaside home to clean the place up and get it… Read More
June 12, 2013
Review: ‘This Is the End’ Is Far More Funny and Extreme Than It Should Be
For their inaugural directing outing, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen haven’t strayed to far from what (and who) they know.… Read More
June 12, 2013
Review: ‘The Purge’ Aims to Entertain and Just Barely Succeeds
As with most things in life, there are good trailers and there are bad trailers. Bad trailers may lay out… Read More
June 7, 2013
Review: ‘Wish You Were Here’ Is a Postcard Scrawled In Guilt and Blood
A man and a pregnant woman lay on the beach, soaking in the sun and talking. Alice (Felicity Price) asks… Read More
June 7, 2013
Review: Alain Resnais’s ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’ Lives Up to Its Title
Enter an art deco mansion. A caravan of France’s most beloved actors - past and present - enter one at… Read More
June 7, 2013
Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Finds Joss Whedon at His Wittiest, Warmest and Sexiest
Editor’s note: Our review of Joss Whedon’s latest originally ran during this year’s SXSW film festival, but we’re re-running it… Read More
June 7, 2013
Review: ‘Violet & Daisy’ is a Cute But Too Cartoonish Take on the Concept of Kickass Little Girls
What if little girls were hired assassins? That’s not an uncommon film scenario today, but usually the answer is that… Read More
June 7, 2013
Review: Much Like the Bible, ‘Rapture-Palooza’ Saves the Hilarity For the End
2013 seems to be the year of end-of-the-world comedies, and while that may be a sure sign of the end… Read More
June 7, 2013
Review: Tired ‘The Internship’ Was Unpaid, So Don’t Fork Over Your Own Dollars For It
It starts promisingly enough. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are in a convertible, cruising to a highly important business dinner,… Read More
June 6, 2013