“Elvis Mitchell’s Documentary ‘Is That Black Enough For You!?!’ Is Black Enough and More”

Yes, it is! Blacker than black! Blacker than the blackest black times infinity! You did it, Elvis! Continue reading →

“How ‘John Wick 3’ Brings A Shadowy World Into Focus”

Man, if you think killing John Wick’s dog is a bad move, wait ’til you try killing him and also killing everyone he knows and also taking away his safe harbor. Continue reading →

Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016, dir. Zack Snyder

…well, it’s here. I am referring both to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and my review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which just went up at Paste moments ago. Put in short: I kind of hated it in a very ambivalent way. It’s a terrible movie, and watching it exhausted and agitated me to no … Continue reading →

Review: Contagion, 2011, dir. Steven Soderbergh

I’ve said before that Steven Soderbergh is a genre chameleon; if this year’s Haywire doesn’t unequivocally prove that, then last year’s Contagion should, and soundly at that. Contagion may not be a straight genre film in the way that the multi-faceted filmmaker’s bone-snapping arthouse action film is, but it nonetheless exists as a synthesis of numerous filmmaking categories– essentially, … Continue reading →