Tag: tj miller

Underwater's potential goes unfounded in a grating story hunting less for thrills and monsters than any sort of character definition.

All Out of Love If your ethics are so distorted they end up as a plot point for the likes of Deadpool 2, it’s time to reconsider. In this …

Readying Up Ready Player One whiffs in terms of asking viewers to explore the copyrighted icons of their youth (and some of today’s too). They sprawl on screen, battling …

Ready Non-Engagement A brief Ready Player One summary to start: It’s about a geeky, pop-culture obsessed kid who uses his knowledge of geekdom to get the girl and push …

Monstrous Politics Stills from a plethora of mobile camera phones and handheld video made 9/11 America’s first voyeuristic disaster. Technology allowed for endless replay of exploding planes and collapsing …

Extinction Incomplete In back-to-back viewing, the Transformers films blend mindlessly together. Blame their formula, which, even with different casting in Age of Extinction, still features a geeky intellectual and …

Sparring and Brawling with Sean William Scott The subtitle, Last of the Enforcers, rings true; it’s true for hockey as the sport moves toward finesse play. That means pushing …

Holiday Melee Forgettable as it might be, Office Christmas Party blends workplace anxiety and mindless comedic escapism into a snappy package. It’s fun, with plenty of booze, stupid antics, …

White Christmas, but the White is Cocaine After reflecting the drudgery of a service-driven American workforce (and some economic anxiety), employees of a Chicago-based tech firm drunkenly joust with …

Extras make Deadpool’s Blu-ray high-class Deadpool has a ton of vulgar fun on its way through superhero cinema tropes. Ryan Reynolds clearly enjoys himself as the raucous, disfigured anti-hero. …

Deadcool Deadpool needs to exist. Rather, he needs to exist now, alongside the whirlpool of studio-safe superhero blockbusters where he can lampoon, laugh, and make reference to their stupidity. …

Significantly improved over Big Hero 5 You can tell Big Hero 6 is from Disney: There is near instantaneous tragedy. After establishment of the world and the necessary science …