The Jungle Book (2016) Review: New Old World. Remakes have always felt weird to me. They exist because of a desire to update an old story for a new audience, but only get made when the old audience still has nostalgia for the old story. Right there you run the

Captain America: Civil War (2016) Review: If It Ain’t Broke… It’s the first weekend of May and while that might not actually be the beginning of summer, it is the start of the blockbuster summer season. Coming our way weekend after weekend are movies with big budgets that hope to

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) Review: There Be Monsters. Back in the old days of…2008, there was a little movie called ‘Cloverfield’. ‘Cloverfield’ was a found footage film that told the giant monster movie from a much different perspective. It’s heralded today as one of the best movies to use the

Zootopia (2016) Review:Animals Are Racist Too In my review for Godzilla, I mentioned how Science Fiction movies have a tendency to be allegorical. The bright lights and cool sounds of a sci-fi movie are like the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine of real world issues go down. The same principle

Deadpool (2016) Review: Stupid Good. This movie shouldn’t exist. It just shouldn’t. It’s based off a character whose cinematic debut was in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, one of the worst reviewed comic book movies of all time. Typically not a good resume, but when you couple that with the fact that

The Big Short (2015) Review: Honest Con When it comes to Biopics, the underlying conceit is, because it’s a true story, that makes it matter more. There’s a genuine atmosphere that comes with them that makes audiences all the more invested in the narrative. All the work that a piece of fiction

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) Review: Third Time’s A-Charming When it comes to trilogies, the third film is usually the worst one. It’s touted as the satisfying finale to the epic saga of the films before it, but it never lives up to those resolutory expectations. Instead what you get

Star Wars:The Force Awakens (2015) Review: A NEW New Hope I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, I’ll start out with that. I watched the movies when I was younger, it didn’t really register with me the same way something like Terminator or Spider-Man did. I thought lightsabers were cool

Creed (2015) Review:Rocky Episode VII In my review for Southpaw, I mentioned how the sports movie, and more specifically the boxing movie, is a rarity in film in that, rather than evolve from the tropes and cliches it’s known for, it revels in it. Audiences even find it a travesty if the