tl;dr: liked it okay, didn't love

( I might have been the last person in fandom to see it, but cut for spoilers nonetheless )

Gosh, I wanted to love this. I really did -- a documentary on the Soviet Red Army hockey team with Slava Fetisov as the main focus. If you know anything about the sport, what could be better?

( A lot, sadly. )

Let me preface this by saying that Noah was not a movie I was eager to see or one that I would have paid money to see. But I did pay for a membership a MoMA and, through them, there was a ticket to see the movie with a Q-and-A with director Darren Aronofsky afterward. I figured I'd see the movie and then slip out before the Q-and-A because I didn't ( Read more... )

* I might have watched the first episode of Outlander, which Starz is letting US residents do for free for now. I think I should be vaguely embarrassed for having read the book, which is not exactly high literature, but I've read worse fanfic. I began it under misleading pretenses -- NYPL assured me it was historical fiction -- but it's all on me ( Read more... )

( bleak, bloody, gorgeous, and more than a little effed up )

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Snowpiercer, uncut and unlobotomized, is finally hitting US theaters in the first phase of the platform release that was part of the compromise between director and distributor.

Snowpiercer showtimes at FandangoIf your city’s not listed, bug your friends in the cities that are to go see it because the nature of platform releases is such that if ( Read more... )

Jason Momoa is apparently going to be Aquaman in the DC Movie Universe ( Read more... )

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... I'm not sure "Wolverine as Danny Ocean" excludes the possibility that this is All About Wolverine's Manpain, but... it's better than the last one?

Quicksilver is not looking any better now that we hear him speak and do his thing. Which is why the director of the porn parody got in a pretty good shot (worksafe).

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My immediate post-film reaction was thus: Oh. My. GodI came into this movie with sky-high expectations I knew I should temper but never quite got around to doing so. I have loved Brubaker's source material since its release -- I own the entire run in TPB format -- and I have been living with 'my' versions of the MCU characters for more than a year ( Read more... )

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... I like it better than the first one, that's for sure. And not just because Storm looks to get impaled fifteen seconds in. (I love Storm. I could do without Halle Berry playing her.)

I really, really loved parts of XMFC -- the Charles and Erik show. The kids were boring, thinly drawn, and a general waste of screen time better devoted to the ( Read more... )