Cinephiled’s Top 11 Films of 2013
Is it fair to compare a lesbian love story told by a Tunisian-French director to a documentary about a wave of killings in Indonesia in which the still living assailants recreate the scenes of...
View Article‘Justice League: War’ First Official Clip Released
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released the first official clip of Justice League: War, the next entry in the popular series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies. The clip features Batman and...
View Article‘Rise of an Empire’ is bloody but pulseless
Well, you do have to give the makers of 300: Rise of an Empire credit for one thing: At least they were “creative” enough to give it that title instead of the more instantly recognizable but...
View Article‘Need for Speed’ Also Needs Judicious Editing
In all fairness, you can probably blame the Fast and Furious movies for setting a bad example and precedent. After all, each film in that blockbuster series has gotten progressively longer. The last...
View ArticleReview: Thrilling ‘Raid 2’ Tests Limits of Film Ratings and Stomachs
The Raid 2 makes a strong case that it’s no longer possible for a film to get an NC-17 rating based on violence alone. After all, if any film were to receive the MPAA’s so-called “rating of doom” it...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Winter Soldier’ Satisfies With Spy Thrills and Super Heroics
What has set the Marvel movies apart from expected, somewhat run-of-the-mill super hero movies based upon comics material from other companies and books is their ability to change genres — yet do so...
View ArticleReview: ‘Brick Mansions’ Knows, and Satisfies, Its Target Audience
Paul Walker died Nov.30, as a result of a tragic auto accident in which he was the passenger, not the driver. At the time of his death, shooting had just begun on Fast & Furious 7, and obviously,...
View ArticleReview: Frustrating ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Is Too Many Movies in One
For all the things the first Amazing Spider-Man movie did right, it failed in several other, equally important respects. For one thing, it failed to develop a villain that was anywhere close to being...
View ArticleReview: ‘Godzilla’ Redux Serves Up Monstrous Action, Human Drama
While it remakes the original Godzilla film (the mid-’50s classic King of the Monsters!) to a certain degree, the more obvious comparison for the new Godzilla is to Pacific Rim, last year’s...
View ArticleReview: Bryan Singer Reclaims X-Franchise With Heady, Thrilling ‘Days of...
Bryan Singer kicked off the X-Men movie franchise with a pair of high-concept action-thrillers (in 2000 and 2002) that used the beloved Marvel Comics characters and concepts as a way to confront and...
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