If you’ve read more than two of my pieces about comic books, then you know that I love the way superhero stories engage with real-world issues of justice, often reimagining systems that we know to be flawed. Few comics do that better than the recent series Black, from Black Mask Studios. Black follows a lot…
Review: Creed II — No Fancy Footwork, All Thudding Haymakers
“If I can change and you can change… everybody can change!” So declared a bleeding and blubbering Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) at the end of 1985’s Rocky IV, minutes after he defeated the superhuman boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) to avenge best friend Apollo Creed’s (Carl Weathers) death at the Soviet’s red-gloved hand, thereby winning…
Think Christian: “Looking for Good Samaritans in John Carpenter’s Halloween“
I know I’m posting this after October 31st, but because the David Gordon Green/Danny McBride Halloween is still doing well in theaters, I hope it still has relevancy. For me, the scariest part of the original Halloween occurs when Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) pounds on her neighbor’s doors, looking for sanctuary from the pursuing…
Review: Mid90s Hints at the Development of a Great Filmmaker
Mid90s may be a movie about adolescence, but the movie itself feels like an adolescent top. Shot on 16mm film in a 4:3 aspect ration, Mid90s drifts between a strikingly mature directorial debut from actor Jonah Hill and a clunky film full of first-timer mistakes. An example of the former occurs shortly after young protagonist…
