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Screen Anarchists On INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
It seemed like a joke when the news broke that Harrison Ford, at the time almost 80 years old, would take up the hat and whip for another turn as the intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones. But lo-and-behold, there it...
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Review: Popcorn for Adults
Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen star; James Mangold directed.
Cannes 2023 Review: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY, Indy's Final Adventure
Directed by James Mangold, Harrison Ford reprises his iconic role for the fifth and last time in the long running fan favorite film series.
Destroy All Monsters: Myths Evolve Because We Need Them To, And Other Things I Learned From LOGAN
Spoilers for Logan. With Logan, the modern comic book movie finally enters its revisionist phase. The film is the conclusion of a cycle: not just of a phase of Hugh Jackman's career and of the X-Men movies in general, but...
Review: LOGAN, Superheroes Aren't Just for Kids Anymore
Tough, tense, thoughtful, and terrific, Logan is truly the first superhero movie for adults, not for kids or arrested adolescents. Granted, it's best for adults who have a tolerance for bloody, vicious violence. One of the characters claims the violence...
Gritty Second Teaser For Icelandic Thriller CITY STATE 2
Icelandic director Olaf De Fleur returns to the scene of the crime with City State 2, the sequel to the surprise Icelandic hit which is currently slated to be remade in the US by James Mangold. The first was a...
Review: THE WOLVERINE Aims High But Falls Just Short
I can't speak for everyone, but after a summer full of crumbling cities, robots, monsters, and the loudest sound effects I can remember, I felt the need to brace myself as I sat down to another big-budget action spectacle. Thankfully,...
THE WOLVERINE Releases Three More Ink Posters, Check The Entire Series!
When it comes to the marketing for James Mangold's The Wolverine, it has been a tale of two poster campaigns. There are the main posters, which revel in everything that is horrible about photoshopped artwork and are utterly horrible. And...
New WOLVERINE Trailer Features More Jean Grey, More Swordplay
Logan is sad in the new trailer for James Mangold's The Wolverine. And when Logan gets sad he likes to stab things. That about sums it up, right?...
Watch The First Teaser For THE WOLVERINE
While Hugh Jackman's first solo foray as everyone's favorite X-Man didn't exactly set the box office or critic's pens on fire expectations are considerably higher for the James Mangold directed second effort, titled simply The Wolverine. It draws from one...
KNIGHT AND DAY review
In this movie, Tom Cruise might be crazy. That's the all-to-believable premise behind the latest otherwise action-packed Cruise vehicle, "Knight and Day", also starring Cameron Diaz. Besides being a surprisingly highly effective bit of summer escapism, "Knight and Day" is,...