• May 13, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock, a recently fired, renegade investigative reporter who’s known for thumbing his nose at authority and who’s probing the medical research being conducted by...

• April 24, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Avengers: Endgame doesn’t have much faith in the resilience of humanity. Five years after Thanos (Josh Brolin) made half of Earth’s (and the universe’s) population disintegrate into ash with...

• January 27, 2018
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Honestly, I was grinning from start to finish. It’s light-hearted, action-packed, funny, smart and – unlike so many recent films of its ilk – wonderfully human. The characters’ problems...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Sorry not to garner any more enthusiasm, but, “it’s fine” was my actual response to the film when the credits rolled. Guardians will most likely please fans of the...

• January 27, 2018
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Set in the year 2029 – when, apparently, nothing (not technology, not clothes, not cars, etc.) really looks any different than it does in 2017 – the film centers...

• November 1, 2017
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

I have to admit, I’ve always found the presence of Thor, God of Thunder, in the Marvel universe a bit odd. Pretty much all the other superheroes are Earth-bound...

• November 4, 2016
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

OK, so I know dismissing a whole Marvel movie based on the theory of white male privilege sounds dismissive, but a few hours after watching Doctor Strange, the latest...

• July 12, 2016
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Wade Wilson is a wisecracking pretty-boy mercenary (played by wisecracking pretty-boy Ryan Reynolds, who finally seems to have a role that fits him like a red leather bodysuit). He...

• May 26, 2016
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

The X-Men universe keeps on keepin’ on, and going in multiple directions and back again, it seems to have a never-ending universe. Characters first introduced in Bryan Singer’s first...

• May 6, 2016
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

First, this is really an Avengers movie that has Captain America’s pretty face at the forefront. If you want to see almost all your favorite heroes from the last...

• August 7, 2015
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Starting on a gentle, note of wide-eyed fantasy, I was thinking to myself that this latest reboot of Fantastic Four harkened back to an almost-Spielbergian earnestness, down to a...

• July 17, 2015
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

I know several people that would name Paul Rudd as one of their movie boyfriends. He’s ridiculously good-looking, but despite (rather than because of) that he is totally adorable...