[Review] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

In my recaps of the Mission: Impossible movies last week, I postulated that even in this most unpredictable of series, where tone, narrative and character are defined not by formula but the vision of whomever happens to be behind the camera, the movies tend to alternate between the character-driven suspense of the first and third […]

[Review] Avengers: Age Of Ultron

The Avengers was not just the movie which brought Marvel’s cinematic universe heroes together on-screen for the first time, but also the one which found a consistent tone and philosophy for the series going forward. Looking back at the earliest movies in the canon, it’s no surprise that despite their financial success, they tend to […]

[Tribeca Review] The Survivalist

In most post-apocalyptic movies, the predominant colors are brown and gray, as if the only things that can exist in this fallen world are dirt, soot, and some muddy combination of the two. In Stephen Fingleton’s assured feature film debut, The Survivalist, the post-apocalytic world is green instead, lush and overgrown now that the human […]

Michael B. Jordan might be a slam dunk for Independence Day 2

Michael B. Jordan made some early waves in his roles in The Wire, Friday Night Lights, and Chronicle, has received critical acclaim for his role in Fruitvale Station, and is set to portray the Human Torch in Chronicle director’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Now, early reports have come out that Jordan is being targeted for a major role in Roland Emmerich’s Independence […]