‘DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE’ an Orgiastic Barrage of Jokes and Violence That May Win You Over With Sheer X-Force

July 23, 2024 by Matt Oakes Posted in Out in Theaters Tagged Deadpool, Deadpool & Wolverine, Hugh Jackman, Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, Wolverine, Zeb Wells 9 Comments

Reviewing Deadpool & Wolverine is about as useful as tits on a duck-billed platypus. After two movies featuring the foul-mouthed merc, played with childlike glee by Ryan Reynolds, indulging in cartoonish violence, 13-year-old-approved potty humor, and gratuitous fourth-wall-breaking meta commentary, viewers have already decided if this slice of the intersectional superhero universe gets them going or not. If Deadpool is already your thing, Deadpool & Wolverine will likely be a phantasmagoric cinematic aphrodisiac, blissfully reveling in the filth and frenetic energy of this profane property, servicing the fans like a truck stop hooker on twofer Fridays. Though many were (rightfully) concerned that the ribald comedy, facetious tone, and hard-R nature would stifle under the transition to the censorial Disney, the Deadpool of yore has been well preserved. However, the resources afforded to Shawn Levy’s $250M production have become near limitless. This, folks, is maximalist Deadpool, with all the resources of an Avengers team-up tentpole but the same old shameless shtick. Read More

Out in Theaters: ‘DEADPOOL’

February 8, 2016 by Matt Oakes Posted in Out in Theaters Tagged Brianna Hildebrand, Deadpool, Ed Skrein, Morena Baccarin, Out in Theaters, Paul Wernick, Reviews, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds, Stefan Kapičić, Tim Miller 5 Comments

Deadpool has been lurking around the primordial soup of supers since his debut print appearance in February of 1991. Striking a nerve with comic fans fancying some bite with their bark and some rabies to their Cujos, Deadpool arrived on the scene a supervillian before slipping into the moral grays of anti-hero-dom and donning those infamously R-rated wisecracks into his persona like a latex-tight getup. By the time he was leading his own franchise, a cultly rabid surrounded the merc with a mouth like bush flies buzzing around fresh-squeezed dookie. When transported to tinsel town in 2009’s much derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Deadpool found himself properly trounced; literally nutless, drained of personality and wit, with mouth rendered useless. The character was as effectively brain-dead as the project he found himself housed within. The tongue-tied, tatted-up war boy that was Deadpool circa 2009 was quickly relegated to the bin of supers who couldn’t withstand the transition to the silver screen and even the suits at Fox did all they could to forget this whole X-Men Origins thing ever happened in the first place. Read More

Winter 2016 Movie Preview – 16 Movies We’re Willing To Give the Benefit of the Doubt

January 4, 2016 by Matt Oakes Posted in Lists Tagged 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Deadpool, Hail Caesar!, Hello My Name is Doris, I Saw the Light, Jane Got a Gun, Lamb, Previews, Queen of the Desert, SOMM: Into the Bottle, The Little Prince, The Witch, Where to Invade Next, Zoolander 2 Leave a comment

We’ve written about the best films of 2015. We’ve written about the worst. And then, it was over. And so came “that” time of year. “That” time of year where the hits of 2015 continue to dominate the box office. Where awards contenders pile back into theaters. Where Star Wars makes another billion dollars. And, most importantly, where new releases are synonymous with shite. Hello 2016 movies. The dumping ground is right over here. Read More