Future Passé
Back in the self-proclaimed Space Age of the 1950s and ’60s, visions of the future featured lots of clean, shiny cities filled with happy,...
Bonus Film Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road is enough to make Furious 7 look sedate by comparison. There, I wrote it. That lead sentence is probably somewhat...
Bonus Film Review: Pitch Perfect 2
It’s déjà vu all over again. Just like the Avengers sequel, the hotly anticipated Pitch Perfect 2 is the follow-up to an awesome 2012...
Riled Up
Let’s be real here. The main reason the low-budget Western Echoes of War is opening in theaters here is because of the presence of...
The Hardy Girl
Back in 1967, there was a film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd. (Note to younger movie fans: Do not...
Cliché Written
Back when Chris Evans was starring in inconsequential fare like the Fantastic Four films and The Nanny Diaries, I dismissed him as some lightweight...
L.A. Lawless
The uneven career of Jack Black has had some delirious highs (The School of Rock) and gruesome lows (Gulliver’s Travels), but this comic actor...
Rebuilding the Shield
Three years ago this week, The Avengers opened. Ultimately, it would become the third-biggest box office hit in movie history. Part of its success...
Getting the Hang
I catch Bill McAdams Jr. during a whirlwind week. He was in Dallas on April 22 for the premiere of Gallows Road, the drama...
End-of-Spring Roundup
Only two movies are opening in wide release this week, and neither of them screened in time for our deadlines. Ex Machina is expanding...
