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 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...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 16, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Transcendence marks the feature filmmaking debut of Wally Pfister, the “visionary” cinematographer who was responsible at least in part for the mind-blowing look of Inception, Chris Nolan’s 2010, love-it-or-hate-it, dream-world hit. Pfister’s science-fiction thriller...
