Review: Bryan Singer Reclaims X-Franchise With Heady, Thrilling ‘Days of Future Past’

by Jeff Michael Vice | May 21, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot

Bryan Singer kicked off the X-Men movie franchise with a pair of high-concept action-thrillers (in 2000 and 2002) that used the beloved Marvel Comics characters and concepts as a way to confront and address xenophobia and homophobia, something the comics’...

Review: ‘Godzilla’ Redux Serves Up Monstrous Action, Human Drama

by Jeff Michael Vice | May 13, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot

While it remakes the original Godzilla film (the mid-’50s classic King of the Monsters!) to a certain degree, the more obvious comparison for the new Godzilla is to Pacific Rim, last year’s science-fiction/action-thriller that also featured giant-sized monsters...

Review: Frustrating ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Is Too Many Movies in One

by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 30, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot

For all the things the first Amazing Spider-Man movie did right, it failed in several other, equally important respects. For one thing, it failed to develop a villain that was anywhere close to being as interesting or as integral to the plot as its title character....

Review: ‘Brick Mansions’ Knows, and Satisfies, Its Target Audience

by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 25, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot

Paul Walker died Nov.30, as a result of a tragic auto accident in which he was the passenger, not the driver. At the time of his death, shooting had just begun on Fast & Furious 7, and obviously, he was unable to finish his work on the movie. (It’s still unclear...

Review: ‘The Winter Soldier’ Satisfies With Spy Thrills and Super Heroics

by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 1, 2014 | Reviews

What has set the Marvel movies apart from expected, somewhat  run-of-the-mill super hero movies based upon comics material from other companies and books is their ability to change genres — yet do so in a strong, compelling fashion. For example, the three Iron...