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’...
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...
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....
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...
by Noah Walden | Dec 30, 2013 | News, What's Hot
Is it fair to compare a lesbian love story told by a Tunisian-French director to a documentary about a wave of killings in Indonesia in which the still living assailants recreate the scenes of slaughter? Or to state which is definitively better; the tale of man sold...
