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Los Cabos 2018 Dispatch: AMERICAN ANIMALS and WIDOWS, a Heist Movie Double Feature
Reminiscent of the recent Mexican film Museo, by Alonso Ruizpalacios, American Animals is a heist movie starring youngsters who, on paper, would have no obvious reason to carry out a robbery. With the support of their families, without economic problems,...
Review: THE LAZARUS EFFECT Flatlines
If this review is nothing special, that's because it's in keeping with the film it's about. This being a resurrection horror flick, reviewers would ordinarily be bending over backwards looking for new ways to cleverly utilize back-from-the-dead wordplay, but in...
KICK-ASS: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Batman
What you'll talk about after seeing KICK-ASS can be summed up like so: Hit Girl. In the new ensemble superhero film, Chloe Moretz plays Mindy Macready a.k.a. Hit Girl, an eleven year-old trained in the deadly arts by her father...
Is this movie here to KICK ASS or chew bubblegum?
KICK ASS It's been described as Superbad (2007) meets Mystery Men (1999) and while there's some of both those films here the description is still misleading. Yeah on the surface this movie is foul mouthed and sexually adolescent and it's...
Millar's Crossing and the age of Hyper-Irony ...err...um...ah... Another Review of Kick-Ass
In Carl Matheson's early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper-irony: "The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on...
Evil Doers Beware The Wrath Of KICK-ASS' Big Daddy!
The Punisher aint got nothin' on Big Daddy. That seems to be the basic message behind the latest clip to appear from Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass. Uber-violent, uber-deadly, this one has earned its red-band status wholeheartedly. Check it below....
SXSW 2010: KICK ASS Review
KICK ASS does. At its most elemental level, it's tremendously exciting to see a superhero flick that embraces unadulterated bloodshed and violence while promoting the idea that deranged destruction can happily co-exist with responsible hero-hood. It's a movie that gleefully...
Win A Copy Of KICK ASS: CREATING THE COMIC, MAKING THE MOVIE
Most anticipated film of the summer season? No doubt about it, it's Kick-Ass. And so our good friends at Titan Books are doing what they do best in these situations, not only publishing a kick ass book to accompany the...
Final KICK-ASS Trailer Kicks The Most Asses Yet.
Title says it all. It's the new trailer for Kick-Ass. It's a red-bander. And it does, indeed, kick a whole lot of ass....
Who Needs Oscar When You've Got KICK-ASS? New Red-Band trailer!
You know what movie will probably never come with sniffing distance of an Oscar? Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass. And you know who doesn't care even a tiny little bit? The guy sitting here typing this article. Know why? Because I'll wager...
Sigh. It's a kinder, gentler third trailer for 'Kick-Ass'
The third trailer for Kick-Ass was released this past weekend!Sure it's not as bloody or vulgar as the previous trailers and will likely lead to more than a few misconceptions about the actual content of the film but at least...
Hit Girl Is All Set To KICK ASS
Granted, I didn't much care for the Big Daddy character poster for Mathew Vaughn's Kick Ass - thus it never appeared here - but that one hiccup aside I'm pretty much madly in love with every other scrap I've seen...
Review: Matthew Vaughn's KICK-ASS
Footage from Matthew Vaughn's independently produced adaptation of Mark Millar's Kick-Ass comic created a strong buzz at Comic-Con in 2009. Lionsgate picked up the film a few months ago, but little information has emerged beyond a lackluster trailer and some...
Nicolas Cage Teaches Hit-Girl To KICK ASS
The new poster of Nicolas Cage in his Kick Ass gear? The fact that I'm still using the Red Mist poster, instead, should tell you what I think of it. But the video clip that premiered with it? Man, that's...
The Red Mist Is All Set To KICK ASS
The fine lads at Aint It Cool have just gotten hold of a new character poster from Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass featuring Christopher Mintz-Plasse in his Red Mist get up. Yes, please....
