Film Reviews
War Room
In the rundown of the year’s biggest winners and losers, it’s easy to find selections in both categories. Jurassic World— which pleased critics and broke box office records— was one of the year’s biggest winners while the Fantastic Four reboot— which stalled with...
Sinister 2
Directed and co-written by Scott Derrickson, this the original Sinister built scares around a familiar premise. In it, Ethan Hawke played a mystery novelist named Ellison who moved his naïve family into a home that previously housed a terrible murder. The concept wasn’t...
Straight outta Compton
In one of the first scenes in the drama Straight Outta Compton, order the young Ice Cube (played by his own son O’Shea Jackson Jr.) sits on a local bus while a gangster boards it and waves a gun around like it’s no big deal. The gangster tells the students to stay in...
Fantastic Four
There are some shows that succeed right out of the gates— leading audiences to question why they’ve never seen a production like them before. Scream Queens is one of those shows. Ryan Murphy, patient who created the show alongside Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk, pharm seems...
Best of Enemies
Good Kill Movie Poster In an ironic twist of fate, cheap Best of Enemies — a new documentary about the rise of political punditry — is arriving in theaters at a time when Jon Stewart (a longtime critic of punditry) is going off the air as the host of The Daily Show....
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
In the first ten minutes of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, we see special agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) climbing aboard a moving plane as it begins taking flight. Hunt is tracking a massive stack of weapons on the plane and won’t surrender until he steals them away from the...
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