Posts Tagged ‘Nicholas Hoult’
Film Review – Dark Phoenix
It’s crazy to think that the X-Men movie franchise, which helped kick start the superhero boom as we now know it, first appeared on screen nineteen years ago. Things have changed a lot since then. Seeing people that can shoot lasers out of their eyes…
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Film Review – Tolkien
From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, the lasting influence of fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien is evident. Most of the tropes we’ve come to associate with high fantasy were explored first in his Lord of the Rings and Hobbit novels that were originally published from…
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Film Review – The Favourite
I have never watched a trailer for one of Yorgos Lanthimos’ movies and been like, “I wanna watch that!” I just now read the synopsis for Dogtooth on Wikipedia and just thought “Ew.” I feel pretty adventurous with my movie tastes, but I will admit…
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Film Review – Equals
Thanks to The Hunger Games and the genre of young adult novels with dystopia themes, we have a plethora of films that have run the gambit of what a future world may look like if some destruction happens to the Earth or some fantastical, mythical…
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Film Review – X-Men: Apocalypse
Spencer and Greg Upton (formerly of the Backroom Comics Podcast) take a look at the latest chapter in the X-Men saga, X-Men: Apocalypse, from director Bryan Singer and starring James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender.
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Film Review – Dark Places
Gillian Flynn has had a lot of influence in the book world since her novel Gone Girl was released. And for good reason, it’s a nasty, twisty, fun little thriller. David Fincher – working from Flynn’s script – made a pretty decent movie from the…
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Film Review – Mad Max: Fury Road
When it comes to hyperbolic storytelling, action movies are about as pure filmmaking as you can get. With the release of Mad Max in 1979, the bar for action films was placed at an unprecedented level due to a raw, unbridled approach to practical stunts.…
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