When mercenary Wade Wilson discovers he has terminal cancer, he volunteers for a radical experimental treatment designed to cure his disease and give him superpowers. And so, Deadpool is born. Kicking off the superhero slate in 2016, Deadpool is in an enviable position. It doesn’t have the weight of expectation it would have if it was released at the […]
‘Goosebumps’ Review: A Surprisingly Adept Monster Mash
When a plethora of hideous ghouls and beasties escape the magic books of Goosebumps author R.L. Stine, it’s up to him and a gang of teenagers to put a stop to the carnage and save their small town. If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember reading R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books or watching the television adaptation on Fox Kids. It’s […]
‘Spotlight’ Review: Tackling The Darkest Corner Of Society
Spotlight tells the story of four investigative journalists working for the Boston Globe who uncover the extent of pedophilia in the Catholic Church and seek to expose it to the world. Spotlight is a movie which concerns itself with why something has happened and how we let it happen. Like its Academy Award rival The Big Short (read […]
‘The Big Short’ Movie Review: Financial Crisis For Dummies
The Big Short is the hard-to-believe true story about four outsiders in the world of finance who picked up on the inevitable credit and housing collapse during the mid-2000s, and exploited the failing system to get one over on the banks. As I walked out of my screening of The Big Short, I was left with […]
‘The Revenant’ Movie Review: A Physical Masterpiece Of Cinema
The Revenant is the historically inspired story of Hugh Glass, an 1820’s fur trapper who overcomes a bear attack and travels the wilderness to find and murder the man who killed his son and left him for dead. The Revenant is one of those movies that comes along every once in a while, takes one look […]