By now, the zombie genre might seem tired and overdone. The Walking Dead is in it’s tenth season, with one spin off show and another on its way, for some reason. There’s iZombie, Warm Bodies, and does anyone remember when…
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As Benjamin Franklin famously said in Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One, “time is money,” and when you’re dealing with billions of dollars, every millisecond counts. Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project finds its monumental stakes riding…
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Redemption. That’s a common theme in comic books and for a very good reason. It’s a story we can all relate to and usually one with a happy ending. My first viewing of the theatrical release of Batman v Superman:…
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At a certain point you need to accept that the Now You See Me franchise—and it most certainly has been engineered as such—is about superheroes, not magicians. Like with the first film, Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2…
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In the middle of term papers and final exams, I clung to one calming thought: in a few weeks I was going to be at Cannes. I closed my eyes and imagined the sweeping red carpets and the glimmering French…
In defense of Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor
The following article contains spoilers for Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Read at your own risk. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is one of the most fascinating cinematic atom bombs to come out of Hollywood in a very…