Seven years into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’m still surprised that the thing works at all, much less that it’s the single biggest Hollywood franchise of all time. It almost …
Under Slick Sci-Fi Surface, ‘Ex Machina’ Is First-Rate Old-School Suspense
Things get creepy quickly in Ex Machina, one of the latest films to crack open the Pandora’s box of artificial intelligence. It’s neither the first nor the last movie of …
Disney’s Entertaining ‘Monkey Kingdom’ Ventures Into the Realm of Docudrama
Disney has long been accused of manipulating the subjects of its nature documentaries, with the most notorious example being that time they allegedly imported and murdered a herd of lemmings …
Godard’s Cultural Provocation Shifts Into 3D With ‘Goodbye to Language’
Cinephiles love to condemn 3D as gaudy spectacle for philistines. So leave it to Jean-Luc Godard, the octogenarian enfant terrible of the arthouse pantheon, to take up the technology and …
‘Furious 7’ Lives Up to Its Title, Despite Frenetic Ambition
The most bonkers of Furious 7’s many bonkers moments hinges, naturally, on a bonkers car. How bonkers is it? It is so bonkers that it comes with people; If you’re …