Comics, Fantasy, Film
Film: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
It’s almost as if an unfair world is punishing Marvel for finally diversifying. Just as the long-overdue Black Widow…
November 20, 2021-
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Film, SpiesFilm: The Red Sea Diving Resort
As period-piece spy dramas go, The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019) is a respectable, if middling, one: well performed…
August 17, 2019 -
Comics, Film, Science FictionFilm: Iron Man 3
The next phase of the Avengers sequence is underway with Iron Man 3 (2013), for my money the best…
May 7, 2013 -
Fantasy, FilmFilm: Hugo
At a glance, Hugo (2011) looks like a promising, magical tale. Call me a curmudgeon, but I found it…
December 27, 2011 -
Comedy, Film, Spies, Spy 100 Project, ThrillerSpy 100, #56: Sneakers
Sneakers (1992) is one of those movies bizarrely warped by time and memory. I saw this back when it…
November 8, 2010 -
Drama, Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) is the perfect movie for a gray, dreary day: beautifully shot, dark, twisty, mysterious.…
June 30, 2010 -
Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Transsiberian
Brad Anderson is a solid director who’s done a number of small, classy independent films — most notably his…
January 14, 2009