I’ve been reading comics with the X-Men in them going back to the mid Seventies, I think the first issue I bought off the stand was around #155 maybe. I very quickly went backwards and filled in my collection back to issue 95 and bought everything moving forward. I...
Written and Directed by Steven Knight Starring: Tom Hardy This is the kind of film that is rarely made: a character study that places one man alone in a car for 85 minutes. It is nighttime and his only companion is the constant stream of phone calls he makes and...
Every time word comes of an Elmore Leonard based film, I feel a mix of dread and anticipation. When done right, Leonard's stuff is awesome on the big screen. But there have been so many that missed the mark that I am skeptical. Based on THE SWITCH, LIFE OF CRIME...
The first trailer for GOOD PEOPLE, the film based on Marcus Sakey's fantastic novel, is here. Directed by Henrik Genz, Good People follows a young American couple, Tom and Anna Reed (James Franco and Kate Hudson), who fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's...
Directed by Jonathan Glazer Written by Walter Campbell and Michel Faber Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor, Adam Pearson Music, cinematography, and narrative work together well in UNDER THE SKIN to provide a wonderfully satisfying...
Directed and Written by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel In 2007, a young scholar, John Maloof, writing a history of his Chicago neighborhood, came upon a treasure trove of negatives that he hoped would help him in his research. When he got around to examining them,...
