Posts Tagged ‘Michael B. Jordan’
Film Review – Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (2021) operates as a throwback action thriller. Its biggest weakness is that it plays too much as a throwback. Adapted from Clancy’s novel, the story exists in the same world of espionage as his other famous character, Jack Ryan. We’re brought right…
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Film Review – Just Mercy
The inherent inequity of the American Judicial System has been the subject of many pointed and moving stories. Cinema has a long history of portraying the wrongly incarcerated on screen. Also, showing the spotty record our courts have with applying punishment to prisoners as influenced…
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Film Review – Creed II
What made Rocky (1976) a classic was that it was never really about the main boxing match. Rather, it was about a man trying to prove to himself that he wasn’t just another bum from the street – that his life amounted to something more,…
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Film Review – Black Panther
Perhaps to acknowledge the ways in which Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther succeeds, it’s first important to recognize the context of its positionality. At this point in the lineage of Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe, we’ve seen over the course of ten years and seventeen films an…
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Film Review – Creed
When I first heard there was going to be a spin off of the Rocky series focusing on the son of Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) I had my reservations. Spin offs, reboots, and remakes haven’t had the best track record, and visiting the world of…
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Film Review – Fantastic Four
Ugh. Especially in a world where even the most diehard fan feels superhero movie fatigue we don’t have time to waste on a lackluster project that plays loose with the source material and doesn’t even have the passion to limp across it’s own finish line.…
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Film Review – That Awkward Moment
January is commonly known as a dumping ground for movies and first-time director Tom Gormican dutifully ekes out That Awkward Moment just under the wire. Presumably pitched as a raunchy rom-com for bros, Moment follows the lives of three twenty-something post-college friends making their way…
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Film Review – Fruitvale Station
Watching Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, I was overwhelmed by a wide range of emotions: anger, confusion, and, above all, sadness. This was one of the more difficult film-going experiences I’ve had in a long time. The film recounts the true story of Oscar Grant, a…
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