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My Generation documentary review: when London was swinging

Mon, Nov 26, 2018Thu, May 31, 2018 | 6 Comments

A brilliantly thrilling look back at the flowering of creativity and freethinking spirit of 1960s London, through the thoroughly charming perspective of Michael Caine.

Going in Style movie review: pabulum and circuses

Wed, Nov 28, 2018Fri, Apr 07, 2017 | Leave a comment

Bland, tasteless entertainmentstuff intended to neither move nor offend, and succeeds as such. A sad pile of unfunny nothing that falls painfully flat.

Youth movie rating: red light

Sun, Dec 02, 2018Sun, Feb 28, 2016 | 2 Comments

Overwrought nine-tenth-life crisis drama; not even a great cast can create sympathy for the artistic and existential turning points on arty display.

The Last Witch Hunter movie review: burn it at the stake

Sat, Dec 08, 2018Wed, Oct 21, 2015 | 5 Comments

If this were Law & Order: Black Magic, which it almost seems like it wants to be, it’d be a helluva lot more interesting than it is.

Kingsman: The Secret Service movie review: forgets its manners

Tue, Jan 15, 2019Fri, Jan 30, 2015 | 414 Comments

I cannot recall a film that left me with such a sour taste in my mouth by its end. Does the movie deliberately defy itself with obnoxious intent?

Interstellar movie review: trading worry for wonder

Wed, Feb 03, 2021Fri, Oct 31, 2014 | 82 Comments

Thrilling intellectually and viscerally, full of stirring notions of what humanity is capable of, and full of hope. A wonderfully refreshing sort of SF.

2014 preview: only movies left underived

Sun, May 12, 2019Wed, Jan 15, 2014 | 1 Comment

Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.