The Magic Mike films are a unique breed these days. An adult trilogy based around a stripper, where the first movie is a drama circling the grungier side of the glamor of stripping. The second is a road-trip movie based around friends coming to new points in their lives. And now we have Magic Mike’s Last Dance.
Last Dance follows Mike (Channing Tatum) as he once again finds himself pulled into the world of erotic performance when he woos a…
We’ve all done it.
Wondered what life was like behind the cape. What the world looked like through the eyes of the cowl. Even if you don’t like the character, most anyone who knows his name has asked themselves “What is it like to be Batman?”
For William Dozier and Adam West, Batman was a quirky, one-liner spitting hero, cleaning up the mischievous antics of kooky villains. For Tim Burton and Michael Keaton, and to a lesser degree Joel Schumacher…
The Departed was my first Scorsese in theaters. I saw it with my mother and sister at the now-defunct Phillips Place Theater opening weekend. I was 13 going on 14 and this movie hit me like the crack of thunder. All these years later I still watch it whenever I can, though that’s less and less every year, and I can still quote my way along to it.
Though perhaps not as endless a well for emotional and thematic exploration…
Dicks: The Musical has a proper attention getting title. Not as eye-popping as its original Identical Fucking Twins, but still surprising. Even as recently as 2010 studios weren’t willing to commit to a theatrical run for Kevin Smith’s comedy titled A Couple of Dicks, forcing Smith to rename the film Cop Out to secure backing and exhibition.
Directed by Larry Charles, longtime Sasha Baron Cohen collaborator, Dicks is funny, but only to a point. It has some heart, but is never…
When they introduced witches in Halloween III, I don’t think this is where anyone thought it would go. For the sake of clarity, I’m reviewing the theatrical cut, though I’ve seen the Producer’s Cut.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, or Halloween 6 if you’re nasty, is the final of the trilogy that was meant to bring Michael back and on-top once more, a trilogy largely overseen by Moustapha Akkad. As I’ve discussed in previous reviews, this batch of films,…
Barbarian is a film I entered almost entirely blind. I knew Justin Long was in it, and that the film had defied my sister’s expectations.
I’m happy to report that the film is skull-splittingly surprising, properly horrifying, and smart! Another in a recent glut of gripping, unsettling, and still entertaining horror films.
Everyone did great. No notes. And I can almost guarantee you’re not sure what you’re in store for
