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Adam Driver’s a terrific action survivor, and there are some fun thrills, but poor construction and scriptwork drag this creature feature into the tarpits. NOW STREAMING: Unfortunately, we couldn't find any streaming offers for 65. Powered by If…
March 12, 2023
Article at The Spool
Michael B. Jordan makes a strong directorial debut with an intimate, thrilling tale of brotherhood gone bitter—and a stupendous action climax. NOW STREAMING: Unfortunately, we couldn't find any streaming offers for Creed III. Powered by Round three…
March 07, 2023
Elizabeth Banks does fun work with the semi-historical drugged-out Ursus americanus but truly shines with the low-key crime dramedy side of the story. NOW STREAMING: Powered by First, some music to set the mood, with thanks to Paul Thomas Anderson.…
February 25, 2023
There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and this has been one of them. Bartosz Sztybor‘s Cyberpunk 2077 comics are decidedly lower-key affairs than their (critically flawed, but at times magnificent) parent game or the terrific, harrowing…
February 23, 2023
Article at AIPT
Neil Jordan and Liam Neeson’s take on Raymond Chandler’s PI occasionally offers a lovely spark, but never enough that bidding it farewell is a sad affair. I love mysteries and crime stories. And it’s been a treat these past few years to have so many…
February 15, 2023
Train to Busan‘s Yeon Sang-ho crafts a moving nearish-future dystopian actioner anchored by an excellent final performance from late actor Kang Soo-yeon. What would you do to know your parents? Not just as parents, but as people—even long after their…
January 25, 2023
Young star Raffiella Chapman acquits herself well as a teenage scientist and survivor in a world whose beauty moves in time with its viciousness. Vesper (Raffiella Chapman, His Dark Materials), a lone teenager clad head to toe in weatherbeaten…
January 09, 2023
Kamen Rider—Shotaro Ishinomori’s tale of a masked, often-motorcycling superhero’s battles against the malignant and power-hungry—has endured for 50 years for a reason. It’s a strong, simple, flexible premise. It’s served as the basis for kids’ shows…
November 27, 2022
The great director draws upon his life, and the lives of his late parents in a masterfully crafted and performed dramedy whose affection for its subjects is as clear-eyed as deep. A little over 24 hours after seeing it, there are two sequences in…
November 23, 2022
There are pages in Zoe Thorogood (The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, Rain)’s It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth that take my breath away. And while the general reason — Thorogood’s a stupendous cartoonist and her work with comics-as-a-form…
November 15, 2022
At its best, Wildstorm was a tremendously flexible setting for superheroism. The Authority is the big fish, of course, the one whose influence (especially Bryan Hitch’s widescreen action) continues to echo through cape comics today. Sean Phillips and…
November 08, 2022
I’ve been lucky enough to review three of Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips, and Ed Brubaker‘s previous four Reckless graphic novels. They’re my favorite comics currently being published. I’ve been lucky enough to write a lot about Sean Phillips and Ed…
October 24, 2022
Moretz leads a murderer’s row of talented performers in a solid (if frustratingly simplified) adaptation of science fiction master William Gibson’s 2014 novel. North Carolina, 2032. Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a skilled gamer. Pro gaming…
October 22, 2022
We’re back with another edition of Fantastic Five, where we give props to the very best comics of the week! This week saw an even split between the Big Two, as Marvel and DC each took two spots in the top five. Rounding out the list is a riveting…
October 14, 2022
Fair warning: As this is Once & Future‘s finale, I’ll be digging into the series as a whole. Expect spoilers. There’s a moment in the back half of Once & Future‘s 30th and final issue that’s going to haunt me. With the unraveling of Britain and…
October 12, 2022
Victor “Sabretooth” Creed is a horrific person. He’s a gleeful sadist, habitually manipulative and abusive, and egomaniacal. He’s well aware of this, and for the longest time, he reveled in his wretchedness. But, when he was condemned by the Quiet…
October 05, 2022
‘Promare’ director Hiroyuki Imaishi’s ultraviolent action is colorful and kinetic, but it’s the quiet moments—lovely, sad, and otherwise, that make this Night City story sing. Mike Pondsmith, creator of the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk—which video game…
September 13, 2022
Adventureland director Greg Mottola goes for laughs and gets them, sometimes to the rest of the movie’s detriment. Jon Hamm is a darn good comic actor, and he’s a darn good comic actor with range. In Top Gun: Maverick for instance he played Naval…
September 12, 2022
In 84 tense minutes, writer/director Jean Luc Herbulot spins together lean, muscular character work and supernatural and social terrors to striking effect. 2003. Amidst the coup in Guinea-Bissau, sleazeball narcotics trafficker Felix (Renaud Farah)…
September 06, 2022
Meredith Gran’s Perfect Tides: Station to Station‘s Kickstarter is in its last week and has passed 75% funding. The first Perfect Tides is one of 2022’s best video games, an insightful walk alongside a year in the life of creative, hurting,…
September 01, 2022
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