“Matthias Schweighöfer’s ‘Army of Thieves’ Replaces Zombie Chaos with Deep-Rooted Joy”

Armies by definition have 5 people in them, and now you know. Continue reading →

“How Ocean’s 8 Succeeded Where Ghostbusters Went Wrong”

I’m surprised that this is a hot-ish take (which I guess makes it a lukewarm-ish take, right?), but: Ocean’s 8 is a superior gender-flipped reboot to most other gender-flipped reboots released to date, chief among them being Ghostbusters ’16, a movie I do not have a positive relationship with.  Look, the plain damn truth is that these … Continue reading →

Review: Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, 2017, dir. Sydney Freeland

There is no poster for Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (at least not one that I’ve found via multiple Google image searches). There should be a poster for Deidra & Laney Rob a Train. Is this going to be a thing for movies that debut on Netflix (or any streaming service) instead of premiering in theaters? … Continue reading →

Review: The Town, 2010, dir. Ben Affleck

The Town serves as a direct competition between Ben Affleck, actor, and Ben Affleck, director, in a bid to determine which of the two stands out as the dominant personality. Anyone who saw 2007’s Gone Baby Gone already can guess that the latter incarnation of the Cambridge-born Affleck emerges victorious, and if anything, The Town … Continue reading →