Deirdre Crimmins revisits THE LAST STARFIGHTER and joins Steve Head on the Diabolique Podcast
Bob Chipman talks ANIMAL MAN
Brett Michel talks Philip Roth
Spoilerpiece Theatre talks BAD MOMS, SUICIDE SQUAD and STRANGER THINGS
Kristofer Jenson offers his Boston Reel Editor’s Picks
Kilian Melloy reviews NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH
SUICIDE SQUAD
“Sure, the film throws in some contractual cameos and obligated pandering, but the majority of its running time is injected with the fuel of screw-it-all abandon.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
“SUICIDE SQUAD had the ingredients to be something truly unique; but once again it seems the suits at Warner Brothers and DC have no idea how to make their own characters work on screen.” – Tim Estiloz, El Mundo Boston
“What does writer/director David Ayer do with all this? He gives us extended fight scenes… What he does not do is give us any reason to care about the results.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“What prevents SUICIDE SQUAD from being as epic as it should be is the story and the film’s overall structure.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
GLEASON
“…a two-hour chronicle of how terminal illness consumes its victims and overwhelms their loved ones, a portrait of what it is like to be helpless, in visceral terms, to your own mortality, and what it is like to watch the person you care about most in the entire world die slowly while you can only stand and watch.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
John Hanlon talks Hollywood and 2016 politics
Jake Mulligan looks back on Jackie Chan
Evan Crean interviews Carol Conley of PENITENCE
Andrew Crump interviews Mike Birbiglia & Chris Gethard for DON’T THINK TWICE
Allyson Johnson podcasts on Mira Nair
Max Covill looks back at The Joker onscreen
Kilian Melloy reviews LACE CRATER
Bob Chipman talks THE GREAT WALL
Kristofer Jenson drops the Boston Reel Editors Picks
JASON BOURNE
“One would think that after more than a century of cinematic car chases we would have seen it all, but Greengrass and company have a few tricks up their sleeves.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“The last great serious spy series has become tedious.” – Norm Schrager, Meet in the Lobby
“For reasons I can only assume involve giant piles of money, Damon and Greengrass have returned at this late date to at long last make their own BOURNE REDUNDANCY, and I’m still a bit taken aback by how lousy it is.” – Sean Burns, Spliced Personality
“The times certainly are a-changin’. Now, the identity crisis seems focused less on the main character and more-so the film he resides within.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
NERVE
“You don’t ask if a roller coaster has a coherent plot or well-developed characters. You just get on and enjoy the thrills. If you can do that, you can take the dare.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“NERVE may be too safe for its own good, and too ignorant of its subject matter to be taken fully seriously, but at least it knows how to show us a good time.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
“NERVE is a good movie that provides thrills as long as you’re like me and had no idea what was about to happen. It would also help if you’re the kind of person who is fine with it being as safe as it is.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
PHANTOM BOY
“…the movie’s magic fantasy is gentle and childlike instead of brawny and authoritarian. Here, might does not make right. Compassion does.” – Andy Crump, The Playlist
