Film Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service

With how ridiculous Kingsman: The Secret Service is I feel like I shouldn’t have liked it even though I was pretty excited going in. How could I not be after those previews? But still, it was setting itself up to crash hard, right next to the burning wreckage of Jupiter Ascending. Thankfully Kingsman doesn’t disappoint, […]

Looking Ahead to 2014: Second Quarter (April – June)

One quarter down so far this year, three to go. Here’s our list of what is peaking our excitement in the next few months.

Review: X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class is a great comic book film that is anchored by a fantastic cast and resets the X-Men universe in an era ripe for potential future films. The film opens up right where the franchise did, with Erik Lehnsherr being separated from his family at a Nazi concentration camp and ripping a fence […]

Review: Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass is a lot of fun and does a nice job at poking fun at the comic book conventions but I can’t help but wonder if this film would have been better off being called Hit Girl. Kick-Ass is a wannabe super-hero that doesn’t really have any super powers; he is more of a really […]

Review: Stardust

Matthew Vaughn’s follow up to the excellent Layer Cake is a solid fantasy adventure that has gotten better on subsequent viewings. Tristan (Charlie Cox) live in the village of Wall that sits on the edge of the fantastical world of Stormhold which he has to cross into to find a shooting star to buy the […]