Tag: Michael B. Jordan

Just Mercy falls to typical studio formulas, but is helped by fantastic performances and critically important racial injustice themes.

Men and Their Kids Creed II isn’t ready to surprise anyone with its familiar slew of montages, pumped up music, and haymaker punches. It’s Rocky. As this series continues …

Creed’s Screed It’s difficult to imagine a Rocky reset keeping the legacy together better than Creed. As with the best films in this series, Creed doesn’t rely on only …

Rocky IV’s memorable scene is that of James Brown, surrounded by Americana, introducing Apollo Creed on his march to fight the USSR’s Ivan Drago to the pop tune “Living …

For Wakanda Killmonger, Black Panther’s supervillain, is right. He speaks against mass incarceration, for civil rights, notes cultural theft, and acknowledges poverty. He lived in ghettos, lost his father, …

The Champ is Here Continuing the Rocky legacy, Creed proves to be an essential addition to the series, elevating Michael B. Jordan as a believable underdog protege while continuing …

Welcome back, Rock Consider that Creed must seriously integrate the events of of Rocky IV’s gonzo Cold War spectacle. It must also accept that Rocky Balboa once purchased a …

The Not Even Sort of Special Four Fantastic Four wants to make discovery palpable again. It seeks out science, whirls through other dimensions, and plants an American flag on …

Fruitvale offers no answers short of being better, less fearful people in Grant's name.

If slogging through hours of purported found footage horror movies can lead to more stuff like Chronicle, yes.