Independent Film Festival Boston 2015 Directed by: John Maclean Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Ben Mendelsohn Plot: A Scottish teenager is escorted across the American West by a bounty hunter. Review: Kodi Smit-McPhee stars… Continue reading
Like many superhero fans I hold Batman and Superman in high regard. Batman has been and always will be, my favorite superhero. As elaborate and sometimes fantastic as his tales have been, Batman’s story… Continue reading
Directed by: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead Starring: Lou Taylor and Pucci and Nadia Hilker Plot: A troubled American flees to Italy to clear his head and sparks a romance with a woman with a… Continue reading
The Emperor’s New Groove has the misfortune of being released during Disney’s Post-Renaissance phase which means it often goes unnoticed among the classics of the 1990’s or the modern revival films. It is,… Continue reading
Must read comics of the week. Batman #40 The conclusion to “Endgame.” Batman puts it all on the line to defeat the Joker. Fantastic Four #645 The end of the Fantastic Four in… Continue reading
The most wonderful time of the year returned to Chicago this past weekend, The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. This smaller convention started back in 2010 and it is the one convention I attend… Continue reading
A couple of years ago the teaser trailer for Man of Steel hit the internet and I wrote a feature about why it didn’t look very good. People were unhappy with this assessment, insisting… Continue reading
Comic books and superheroes are intertwined. The medium popularised and evolved the genre and, for most of the age of fictional superheroes, been the only source for caped crusaders. These days it could… Continue reading
Independent Film Festival Boston 2015 Directed by: James Ponsoldt Starring: Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg Plot: A Rolling Stone reporter shadows David Foster Wallace during the last days of his press tour for his book, Infinite… Continue reading
No Spoilers in this review, I do give some bits away about the set-up of the movie but it doesn’t give anything away. In 2008 Marvel studios put out an entertaining little flick… Continue reading
