SPIDER-MAN 2: In Praise of Tobey Maguire’s Dumb Face by Jacob Klemmer
Tobey Maguire is the most courageous actor ever to play a superhero, because he is…
Year of the Month: KING ARTHUR
Originally written for a college course and published on Letterboxd in 2016 Looking at 2004’s…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on VAN HELSING
Hi, I have a master’s degree in pharmacology and I wrote over a thousand words…
Year Of The Month: Miller on THE GETAWAY AND JUNIOR BONNER
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else…
Year of the Month: Persia on Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa taught me about texture. I’d watched plenty of black-and-white movies before and…
Year of the Month: Cliffy on Star Trek
Stardate: Akron, Ohio, c. 1979. A young Cliffy, a voracious reader at the tender age…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on Push
The modern age of superhero movies began in 2000 with X-Men. Marvel properties quickly established…
Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on Dr. No
“Bond. James Bond.” Here’s where it all starts, where a character from a relatively…
THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING
I know I say this a lot, but video games have ruined adventure cinema. The…
Year of the Month: Belated Comebacker on Mad Max
In May of 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road debuted , reinjecting life into a franchise…