Tag: Idris Elba

Beast isn't taking any chances or trying to surprise, but provides passable thrills over a trim 90-minutes.

Thor returns in another direct comedy, Love and Thunder, but it's another listless and hollow superhero effort from Marvel.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 makes for plenty of empty, hollow fun with the thinnest of purpose, but it's enjoyable junk food.

The Suicide Squad is hilariously funny and surprisingly political throughout this adventure with superhero misfits.

Strikingly funny and even more strikingly political, The Suicide Squad is an imperfect gem in the superhero pantheon.

Someone’s Overcompensating It figures that in this current and cursed timeline, something like Hobbs & Shaw speaks sensibly. As a brazen, idiotic, muscle-driven action flick, it’s necessary to spell …

Asking Who We Are – Without Answers Marc Streitenfeld composes a masterful theme for Prometheus. Violins rise, evoking a feeling of wonderment, discovery, and emotional excitement. There’s none of …

Ragnarocking Thor: Ragnarok shows how versatile the Marvel Universe can be. It’s a slew of beautiful colors, wacky action, and importantly, a stream of comedy. It’s hilarious. Despite the …

Jaeger Bomb J.J. Abrams set out to make an American Godzilla with Cloverfield. He did, inventing in a first-person allegory for traumatic national events. Cloverfield recreated 9/11 as Godzilla …

Of Space Witches and Strongmen If Marvel ever tapped Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker – the team behind screwball classics The Naked Gun and Airplane – to write a comic book movie, the …

Not So Towering Idris Elba plays a gun-toting Jesus. Matthew McConaughey portrays a fire-wielding Satan. Dark Tower is indeed that simple, mashed into a teen fantasy. The two leads …

Not Quite Taken The Take is little more than ugly, sensationalist fiction, crass and exploitative as any film of the post-9/11 terrorist era. Its theatrical existence, under the title …