Film: Gods Of Egypt Directed by: Alex Proyas Starring: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites There’s something really admirable about Hollywood’s eagerness to keep pumping out loud, big budget, mythological epics with the hope of striking gold. It sometimes provides auteurs with a chance to run rampant through centuries-old material while making it their own. […]
2016 movie review
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Gods Of Egypt’ mixes old with new, still sucks
February 27th, 2016 
Sam Cohen 
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Tags: 2016 movie review, brenton thwaites, chadwick boseman, Dark City, game of thrones, gerard butler, Gods of Egypt, Knowing, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Rufus Sewell, the crow 
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February 26th, 2016 Tyler Hanan Scrambling to catch up on all things Oscars? The big categories are easy: Mad Max should win but won’t. Leo shouldn’t win but will. The little people will be played off and someone will be just insufferable. We’ve been over all that time and again. What doesn’t get as much love are the smaller categories—your documentaries, shorts, and […]
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February 19th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: The Witch Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Dickie, Ralph Ineson Directed by: Robert Eggers If there’s anything we’ve learned from horror cinema, it’s that witches have the immense power to take an already awful day and make it exponentially shittier. Considering that last statement, The Witch’s witches are so hellbent on screwing with a 1630s […]
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February 17th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: Cabin Fever Starring: Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Nadine Crocker Directed by: Travis Z Remaking a horror film is probably one of the trickiest things someone can do today. Rarely does the remake trump the original, especially because the original can have a vision that can’t be replicated or repurposed for the sake of another […]
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February 13th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: Southbound Directed by: Roxanne Benjamin, Radio Silence, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath Starring: Mather Zickel, Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Opin, Larry Fessenden The road to redemption is filled with potholes like demons, satanic cults, and masked villains. That much we’ve learned from the horror genre up until now, right? Southbound takes those familiar genre stamps for […]
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February 12th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: Zoolander 2 Directed by: Ben Stiller Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig The original Zoolander still remains as a bit of an enigma, in my head. It was about a dumb man saving the world and the hijinks that would ensue because of that idiocy, maybe with a little bit of […]
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February 10th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: Deadpool Directed by: Tim Miller Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller It’s almost every time a comic book movie comes out that you hear “it’s like all of the other ones!” People, not just critics, decry the lack of voice and personality behind your favorite intellectual properties gracing the screen. That’s […]
Posted in Features, Movies, News, Reviews Tags: 2016 movie review, 20th century fox, Deadpool movie review, guardians of the galaxy, kingsman, marvel, Morena Baccarin, ryan reynolds, t.j. miller Comments Off on MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Deadpool’ Thinks It’s Different, Is Totally NotMOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Finest Hours’ Leaks But Stays Afloat
January 29th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: The Finest Hours Directed by: Craig Gillespie Starring: Chris Pine, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck Heroic feats on the sea seem to be a bit of a trend nowadays at the theaters. With Ron Howard’s In The Heart of the Sea, we learned that even the most harrowing stories can get slighted by the search […]
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January 28th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: The Lady In The Van Directed By: Nicholas Hytner Starring: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings Saccharine messages like “sometimes in life, you need a helping hand” litter the feel-good true stories we see gracing the cinema every so often. What those “feel-good” stories tend to do is err to the side of dramatic sop or […]
Posted in Features, Movies, Reviews Tags: 2016 movie review, Alan Bennett, Alex Jennings, maggie smith, Michael Hytner, movie review, The Lady in the Van movie review Comments Off on MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Lady In The Van’ Pulls Out Of First Gear, Thanks To Maggie SmithMOVIE REVIEW: ‘Dirty Grandpa’ Is Gross, And Not In A Fun Or Entertaining Way
January 22nd, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: Dirty Grandpa Directed by: Dan Mazer Starring: Zac Efron, Robert De Niro, Aubrey Plaza Vulgar comedies are a dime a dozen today. Some go too far, some not far enough. Amongst the litany of studio dreck are a few gems, like Step Brothers or That’s My Boy (that’s right, I like that movie). Dirty […]
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January 15th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: 13 Hours Directed By: Michael Bay Starring: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Max Martini Politicking aside, the raid of the U.S. compound in Benghazi resulted in soldiers giving their lives to protect others. That’s the real-life event at its moral core, right? What director Michael Bay is presupposing here is that, “maybe our military’s […]
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January 8th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: The Forest Directed by: Jason Zada Starring: Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa It’s the beginning of the new year, folks. With that comes many beautiful things in film, like new indies to be seen or award-nominated movies to binge. Then there’s the other side of the spectrum—a much less hopeful and wide-eyed time […]
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