Posts Tagged ‘Jeremy Renner’
Film Review – Black Widow
Scarlett Johansson has been a major part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for just over a decade. Her first appearance as super-agent Natasha Romanoff (aka “Black Widow”) was back in Iron Man 2 (2010). While the character has played a substantial role in making the MCU…
READ MOREFilm Review – Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame (2019) is the most “superhero movie” superhero movie ever made. It’s a sprawling culmination of a decade’s worth of characters and storyline development. Throughout its three-hour runtime, it exhibits both the positive and negative aspects of the genre on a massive scale. Credit…
READ MOREFilm Review – Tag
The idea seems preposterous: a group of friends, all grown men, have been playing the same game of tag for thirty years. From the school yard, through college, jobs, marriages, and into middle age, they each converge one month out of the year to see…
READ MOREFilm Review – Wind River (Second Take)
Wind River is a film that I chose to not watch the trailer for before seeing the film. I went into it blind, other than hearing a fellow audience member saying it was a crime thriller before it started. The Rotten Tomatoes score was already…
READ MOREFilm Review – Wind River
After penning the fantastic Sicario (2015) and the equally great Hell or High Water (2016), Taylor Sheridan has taken up the directing reigns in Wind River (2017). Tonally, it remains consistent with what Sheridan has been associated with – crime thrillers usually set near the…
READ MOREFilm Review – Arrival (Spoiler Free)
Arrival is an alien invasion film, but not in that blockbuster, explosion-ridden sense. Director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners) has taken the topic and made it into a beautiful film. Of course, Arrival is based on the story “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, but…
READ MOREFilm Review – Captain America: Civil War
It is hard to review a film like Captain America: Civil War, since it might be arguably the most critic-proof movie of the year. Critics are already heaping praise on it, and I’m not going waste your time posturing like I disagree. It is an incredibly…
READ MOREFilm Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
In all of the advertisements for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), the key image features super agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) dangling off a cargo plane in mid-flight. Reports stated that Cruise performed the stunt for real, with the help of digitally removed wiring.…
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