Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second release in the spin-off series of films that, thus far, seeks to tell a few tales of the past in regards to some of the main characters...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 28, 2018 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second release in the spin-off series of films that, thus far, seeks to tell a few tales of the past in regards to some of the main characters...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 21, 2018 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Frances McDormand (The Good Dinosaur, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) plays Mildred Hayes, a financially strapped grieving mother who decides to rent, after selling her ex-husband’s tractor, the use of the titular three mostly dormant...
Adapted by Daniel Clowes (Art School Confidential, Ghost World) from his own graphic novel from 2010, Wilson progresses beyond the one-panel comic strips from its print counterpart for the purpose of a more straightforward black comedy story...
The makers of the deliberately vapid and highly superfluous Now You See Me 2 have chosen to fully embrace the dumbness of its premise, going full bore into just trying to make it ridiculous to the...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 2014 · Last modified February 6, 2020
The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 2013 · Last modified February 6, 2020
Catching Fire is the much-anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular The Hunger Games, based on the young adult book series by Suzanne Collins. With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 9, 2013 · Last modified February 13, 2019
In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh returns with his eagerly anticipated follow-up, Seven Psychopaths, and it is witty, wacky, weird, and woefully awful all at the same time. This time the setting shifts to the United States,...
Based on the best-selling book by reporters and political commentators Mark Halperin and John Heileman, Game Change is a made-for-HBO docudrama relating the rise and fall of the 2008 Republican campaign for president for Arizona Senator...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published September 23, 2011 · Last modified November 13, 2019
The Hunger Games is based on Suzanne Collins’ bestselling young-adult novel of the same name. The futuristic storyline primarily revolves around 16-year-old girl Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence), who is the unlucky contestant, volunteering in place...
Refreshing, in these times, to find a spoof on a genre of films that isn’t just rattling off of pop culture references and obvious sight gags, though Shaun of the Dead is still a favorite for...
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