An aggressively bonkers espionage film, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, has breached into comic book territory by amplifying its level of outrageousness in this sequel. The main attraction remains to be its bombastic action designed for viewers with an attention span of a Boomerang app (the delirious cab chase at the
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Logan Lucky
It’s interesting to see how after a sort-of drought in the heist genre, we get two quality entries this year with Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and — the brought-back-from-retirement — Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky. Both are stylized takes on the classic genre: featuring smart quirky dialogue, charming leads, and a
It looks like ‘Gambit’ won’t be Channing all over your Tatum
A lot of passion projects have been starting to take flight these recent years in Hollywood. From the Deadpool movie finally getting a green light after some “leaked” footage, to Neil Blomkamp’s Alien 5 reboot/sequel, even Marvel’s recent blockbuster, Ant-man, was once a passion project of Edgar Wright (you know, before he
Stylized black & white banners for ‘Magic Mike XXL’
Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming Magic Mike XXL puts on the style with the release of its visually striking black and white banners featuring the cast of the eagerly awaited male revue sequel. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, Magic Mike XXL reunites Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez and Gabriel Iglesias,
The Book of Life
The pleasures of The Book of Life is found both in and outside the brackets. The story [within the story (within its story)] may be easily dismissed derivative—and it is—replete with archetypal tropes and often unreliable characterization. Yet it remains characteristic, not strictly in its distinct visual identity but as
22 Jump Street
Unless Vietnamese Jesus is not enough indication, one must be able to predict that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s overtly self-knowing sequel “22 Jump Street” is about, first of all, taking things up a notch. Hopping from twenty-one to the next is not entirely a convincing prefiguration (it is our
