Today’s drug-trade thriller seen theatrically: SICARIO (2015), starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio del Toro, with supporting work by Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber and Jon Bernthal, is one of the best movies of the year and would be one of the best movies of any year, but I need to prevent disappointment among some […]
Some folks of the conservative bent are throwing public snits over Marvel’s SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA #1, in which the current Cap, a black man, fights white supremacists. They take open offense at this, saying among other things that superhero comics are no place for politics. Now, this is shooting fish in a barrel. I […]
Today’s extraordinary Korean thriller on Netflix Streaming: MONSTER (2014). An industrialist makes the mistake of trusting a blackmail payoff to an underling who would rather have the money himself. The underling goes straight to the brother he’s avoided for years, the titular monster, a stone sociopath who kills as easily as he breathes, offering him […]
