Movie Meltdown – The Marvelous Ms. Marvels from Marvel Join us as we return to the Super Series and discuss Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels. And as we try to decide just what makes a good movie versus a limited series, we...
After a touching prologue in which a law student and intern named Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) nervously makes his first visit to a death row inmate, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy quickly jumps ahead to a more seasoned Stevenson,...
“Fan service” is a term spoken with disdain for good reason. Aiming to please a series’ most ardent fans, who are going to go see your movie anyway, makes for flat, unsurprising results. Joss Whedon, the writer and director of...
During the first act of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel, when the movie is concerned solely with the actions of a platoon of alien space marines, I started to get my hopes up, imagining that the cheap-looking sets...
Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire gets off to an unpromising start. Two 1970s Boston tough guys, Bernie and Stevo (Enzo Cilenti and Control’s Sam Riley), sit in a van trading 1970s Boston tough guy dialogue that sounds like it’s from a...