Assembled Over the past decade, Marvel brought audiences toward this melee, beginning in Iron Man’s militaristic fantasy before turning into a wild, uncontrolled spectacle of comic book fiction. Avengers: …
Stark’s Arc The hero of the Marvel universe isn’t Tony Stark. Captain America couldn’t save us all either. Marvel’s movies – some 52 hours of storytelling – belong to …
Assembled, then Disassembled With a decade of build-up, Infinity War goes all out with its spectacle. One computer generated war segues into another, becoming a repetitious and tiring mass …
An Unhappy Girl Fights Off Giants With Help From Zoe Saldana A middle school girl saves her town from monsters… at least in her own mind. I Kill Giants …
Like Kevin Bacon? Infinity War makes it easier to appreciate how clean that first Avengers movie was. Another dozen plus Marvel outings on, there’s such a deluge of arcs …
Well Guarded It’s a shame to see science fiction played without rules yet stay so close to formula. If director James Gunn waited his entire life to expend creative energy …
Into the Beyond The summer of 2016, where even Star Trek wasn’t well enough to survive. Inundated with visual effects and superfluous action, the story never finds its footing …
Trekk’d Out Somewhere in Star Trek Beyond, underneath a cavalcade of nauseous visual effects and motorcycle chases, might be a Star Trek movie. Dialog only glances the philosophical (and …
The Book of Pretty Colors Everyone is made of wood in Book of Life. They’re chiseled and sculptured with little joints plus a bit of scattered, sloppy paint. At …
Guarding the Blu-ray Galaxy Marvel turns off their once strong sense of reality for this off-the-wall adventure through space with a mismatched crew who are out to save… well, …