Directed by Shane Black. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley. PG-13, 131 minutes. Writer’s Note: In the last article, a review of The Avengers, I misprinted the year the movie came out as 2011, and not its actual release year of 2012. I…
Written for the screen & Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson. PG-13, 143 minutes. Previously on Marvel Month… Right at the time when all the superhero origin stories and sequels or reboots were threatening to grow stale,…
Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Gary Shandling, Clark Gregg and Samuel L. Jackson. PG-13, 125 minutes. Previously on Marvel Month: The Incredible Hulk… The machine of industry that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems like such a sure thing now that it’s easy…
For those that do not remember, five months ago I wrote a review of the opening chapter to an upcoming science fiction novel by the name of A Timeless Abandon. I gave it a glowing review, and stated that the book was something to look out for, because it was going to be amazing. Having…
It all ends here… …and begins again. *Cue friggin’ music.* Last time on the Week of Chaos, we brought you into a world where the essence of a man was destroyed with a single spark. After that, you were shown a soul obsessed with violence, digging his own grave in blissful ignorance. Now, there are…
Directed by Marc Webb. Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and James Pinkner. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Embeth Davidtz, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore with Sally Field and Chris Cooper. PG-13, 142 minutes. The first Amazing Spider-Man was a serviceable, if not at all remarkable, adventure that set things…
Written & Directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglass Booth and Tuppence Middleton. PG-13, 127 minutes. Undocumented immigrant Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) begins the movie scrubbing toilets for the upper crust in Chicago. She wakes up every morning with a half-hearted “I hate my life” before she puts…
Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Tom Noonan. R, 116 minutes. SPOILERS AHEAD… RoboCop 2 uses similar clips of news coverage and satirically charged commercials to position us back in the corporate-run, crime-ridden Detroit of the near future, but from the very start something feels off. The original film masterfully towed…
Directed by Francis Lawrence. Written by Danny Strong and Peter Craig. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks, Natalie Dormer, Mahershala Ali, Jena Malone and Donald Sutherland. PG-13, 123 minutes. Near the end of the penultimate chapter of The Hunger…
What: An undersea mining operation comes across the wreckage of an old, Soviet mining vessel. When they come back from investigating, the crew unwittingly brings aboard a creature that hunts them down one by one. Who: Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as the head of the mining operation. He’s awesome, as always. Other familiar faces from popular 80s…
Written & Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Amr Waked and Choi Min Sik. R, 89 minutes. When Lucy begins, we hear Scarlett Johansson’s voice chiming in with something along the lines of, “Human beings have been on this planet for (x amount of years), and what have we done with it?”…
The most important question you will ask yourself is, “How come I didn’t know about this movie?” Director and writer Jeong-woo Park has still left me in shock after his film, Yeon-ga-si, or for us English speakers, Deranged. The plot follows the connected storyline of brothers Jae-pil (Dong-wan Kim) and Jae-hyuk (Myung-min Kim). Jae-hyuk is…
