It’s quite impossible to accuse Secret of the Wings of being the worst Tinker Bell movie, not with Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue out in the world, strutting its stuff. It is, though, not very good at all, ending up almost exactly where I’d assumed beforehand that the whole Disney Fairies franchise was […]

The Wolverine is the best X-Men movie since X2, a long decade ago; but what the hell kind of bar is that to clear? It’s one of the most successful and aesthetically coherent tentpole movies of summer, 2013, but that’s a lower bar, if anything. It’s a solid movie, that is to say, one that’s […]

I’ll tell you what one does not expect of a thriller produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Will Smith, released in 1998 when Smith, for one, was at his all-time most commercially marketable: that it would predict, so casually that it’s almost banal, one of the biggest U.S. domestic policy shitstorms […]