• Mad Max: Fury Road

    Capsule Reviews: May 2015 Wide Releases

    Aloha Comedy (?) where Bradley Cooper plays a military contractor and former soldier who returns to Hawaii for a secret new assignment, where he makes amends with his ex (Rachel McAdams) and finds new love. Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky) was one of the most promising filmmakers ...
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Catching up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    For someone with a film blog who writes reviews and likes to think of himself as an authority on the current state of things in cinema, I had a shamefully huge, Marvel-sized hole in my knowledge. I had seen the first Iron Man and the first Captain America back in ...
  • Ex Machina

    Capsule Reviews: April 2015 Limited Releases

    Adult Beginners Indie comedy about a man who loses everything when his start-up tech company goes bust, then goes back to his hometown to stay with his sister and her family and start over. Nick Kroll (whom you may recognize as "it's that guy" from various TV and film comedies, ...
  • Deadpool

    Deadpool

    We are living in a cinematic landscape of squeaky-clean, on-brand comic book franchises that tend to lean towards the conservative side of things in order to protect the image of the corporate brand. In the midst of all this carefully curated content, one major thing that we’ve been missing is ...