Killing time as I wait for my flight back to NYC by swiping through some issues of Spider-Man’s Tangled Web I purchased on Comixology...

Thanks to Comixology, I finally got my hands on issue #4 of Spider-Man’s Tangled Web, a long out of print anthology series that was...

The new season of Samurai Jack continues to impress. The narrative of tonight’s episode was particularly well structured, dividing the...

Genndy Tartakovsky’s approach to cartoon violence has always tested the limits of what is considered "acceptable" in children’s...

Watched the first episode of the Samurai Jack revival miniseries, and I’m digging the new direction so far. Of course, between Logan,...

The glorious cinematic saga that is Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil is a definite guilty pleasure, but I currently lack the energy to...

In my mind, Mission: Impossible III exists as a gap between the aesthetic excesses of John Woo’s Hong Kong-flavored Mission: Impossible...

Saw Tully, the latest effort from frequent collaborators Jason Reitman (director), Diablo Cody (writer), and Charlize Theron (star), and...

Mission: Impossible—Fallout is one for the fans. In terms of its plot and tone, it’s a near-perfect synthesis of everything that’s...

You know, in retrospect, I don’t think my initial review adequately conveys the oppressively bleak atmosphere that pervades City of the...

Caught a screening of The Unholy Three at Metrograph. It’s been a while since I sat down and watched a silent movie, and while this is...

Just got back in from the Fathom Events screening of Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1. Studio-produced animated shorts...

Comedy and tragedy are a double act, and few movies in recent memory embody that notion quite as elegantly as Stan & Ollie, the sad story...

Comfort food. That’s the best way to describe 007 Legends, at least in terms of gameplay. It won’t win any awards for innovation–it...

I like Eon’s James Bond films, but I love Ian Fleming’s original novels (except for Live and Let Die, which makes for a profoundly...

Stan Sakai likes to spin multi-layered tales. Several of his Usagi Yojimbo one-shots—“Kaiso,” “Jizo,” “Kite Story”—seamlessly weave...

What do a self-destructive male prostitute (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a UFO-obsessed community college student (Brady Corbet) have in...

I love genre conventions. I really do. Two gunslingers stare each other down, waiting to see who will draw first. An honorable samurai...

First thing’s first: despite being produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Overlord is not an entry in the Cloverfield franchise—though there...

You’re Next is a clever, creative, and often quite funny deconstruction of the home invasion horror genre that asks a single, deceptively...