Contest: Win M. Night Shyamalan’s GLASS on Blu-ray!
That Shelf wants to give you a chance to win a copy of M. Night Shyamalan's Glass – the epic conclusion to the Unbreakable trilogy –courtesy of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment!
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Spoiled Rotten – Revisiting X-Men: First Class w/ Gavin Stephens
Gavin Stephens joins Daniel to see how well X-Men: First Class holds up.
Spoiled Rotten 80: Glass
Ben and Daniel spoil M. Night Shyamalan's Glass!
Glass Trailer: Welcome to the Shyamalan-aissance
The latest Glass trailer offers comic book-style thrills, and unites Shyamalan’s Unbreakable characters David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) with Split’s mentally fractured antagonist Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy).
Geek Hard Podcast: Episode 312
We discuss the Captain America comics controversy, review X-Men: Apocalypse, talk with comic artist Marcus To about his creator-owned book Joyride from Image Comics and we also talk with Carolina Bartczak who plays Magda in the new X-men movie.
X-Men: Apocalypse Review
X-Men: Apocalypse is extremely faithful to its source material, but does that make it a good movie?
CONTEST: See THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY
Enter to win passes to see an advance screening ofThe Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby in Toronto or Vancouver!
Home Entertainment Review: Filth
Filth (Jon S. Baird, 2014) – It’s possible that Irvine Welsh’s novel Filth might have been unfilmable, but that certainly didn’t stop writer and director Jon S. Baird from trying. It’s an admirable attempt to encapsulate a decent into abject madness and abasement at the hands of one of Welsh’s most memorably misanthropic creations, if it’s not […]
Filth Review
Despite some good moments and an exceptional high wire performance from James McAvoy in the lead, the Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth is too scattershot to succeed.
X-Men: Days of Future Past Review
Somewhere between a natural continuation of the story arc kicked off by the previous “proper” entry of a franchise and a complete and total retconning of the same lies X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s a stronger film than its immediate and proper predecessor, but thanks to some time travelling and convenient plotting, it essentially undoes most of the plot elements that didn’t work the last time out.
TIFF 2013: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Special Presentation Director: Ned Benson Told in two parts and from two different perspectives (which can be switched around for different exhibitions), Benson follows the marriage between Conor (James McAvoy), and Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) as their marriage of seven years falls apart. With each day worse than the last, their […]
Blu-Ray Round-Up: 8/5/13
This week at the video store we check out new Blu-Rays for recent releases Trance, To the Wonder, Oblivion, and Olympus Has Fallen, and two new Criterion releases for The Devil's Backbone and Lord of the Flies.
Trance Review
Trance is more of a return to basics and the beginning of his career for director Danny Boyle, but it's in service of far lesser material than he should be taking on at this point.
Contest: See TRANCE in Toronto, Calgary, & Vancouver!
Enter for a chance to win one of ten pairs of passes to an advance screening of the latest film from director Danny Boyle, Trance in Calgary on Wednesday, April 10th or in Toronto and Vancouver on Thursday, April 11th at 7:00pm, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Fox Searchlight.
X-Men: First Class Review
It was a big rush when the X-Men films finally hit the screen, all my most beloved characters expanding from the page to the screen. Then X-Men: The Last Stand came along and not only did the shit hit the fan, but it was set to high, and it splattered back in our faces many times over. X-Men: First Class is a chance for redemption, and is aimed at the diehards, while also attempting to attract some new viewers.
