Spirits were high in Capitol Hill this weekend, as was the ratio of space bar music to instrumental bands. Celebrating its 18th year as a festival, Capitol Hill Block Party in its current iteration is really only four years old. Or at least that last day is. You see it takes three full days to...
For once, you won't demand "But where are the other guys?!" Gunn's triumph is happy to exist in its own little universe and for it, trumps Marvel's other heroes. In…
Hercules is the movie equivalent of having a pube stuck in your throat, you just want to cough it up and be free of it. Just keep telling yourself it…
NOTE: I've tried to write something about this movie but I just can't do it. It's too dull to summon the energy to write more than one lousy sentence about.…
Lucy is a masterpiece of mockery and wit, made Hollywood by gorgeous, over-the-top CGI and Johansson's and Freeman’s hilarious self-depricating work. With a first act that’s egregiously terrible, Lucy is…
Dissecting Woody's latest is easier than scalpelling apart a frog. The three acts are built on loose seams, as easily identifiable as cheap Indonesian jeans. And though they might fit…
The empiricist can only know what's there in front of them and on that basis alone, we can deduce that I Origins is a bold, immensely watchable philosophical journey. Rich…
In a world filled with sex tapes, there’s not a lot of room for originality. Sex Tape shows the consequences that come up when something private is made starkly public.…
Since the events of the first film have virtually no bearing on anything that comes to fruition in this second installment, don't let unfamiliarity steer you away from it. Instead,…
It's that impossibly rare blockbuster that shimmers with intelligence and has the FX razzle-dazzle to leave you dazed and amused, grinning from ear-to-ear and stunned by it's impeccably told story.…