Spider-Man meets X-Men in the story of an outcast high-school kid who gains incredible powers and ultimately decides that he’s now better than all those regular people who used to put him down. But the best part of the story is what comes in between those events: a growing friendship …
The director (Ryan Coogler) and star (Michael B. Jordan, cut like an Abercrombie & Fitch model) of 2013’s Fruitvale Station re-team for a Rocky remake retooled for Generation Affirmation. Their first collaboration had a real-life tragedy to ground it. This one, unfortunately, has an increasingly fantastical franchise to give it …
For his directorial debut, star Michael B. Jordan dips back to Rocky III for the “challenger from the streets vs. civilized/retiring champion” story (plus a little “rebounding from personal loss”), and also back to the original Rocky for the “give a bum a chance” bit, mashing them together into the …
It's time for one more punishing round of Rocky-inspired fisticuffs as brothers turn enemies. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors, and Tessa Thompson.
It's time for one more punishing round of Rocky-inspired fisticuffs as brothers turn enemies. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors, and Tessa Thompson.
It's time for one more punishing round of Rocky-inspired fisticuffs as brothers turn enemies. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors, and Tessa Thompson.
It's time for one more punishing round of Rocky-inspired fisticuffs as brothers turn enemies. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors, and Tessa Thompson.
A pleasant crowd-pleaser. Ryan Coogler, having gone on to bigger and bigger things with Black Panther, steps aside and lets relative newcomer Steven Caple, Jr. do the job of mixing the beats of Rocky III — losing your edge and finding it again — and Rocky IV — facing the …
Josh Trank, who smartly darkened up the superhero genre with his small-scale angry-teen film Chronicle, goes big, dumbs down, and ultimately gets overwhelmed with this reboot about three fine actors (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan) in search of a paycheck. Sorry, about four young people given astonishing powers …
You know where this train is going before it leaves the station: the film opens with cell-phone footage of BART officers subduing a young black man who does not appear to require subduing. Then you hear a shot. The young black man was 22-year-old Oscar Grant, and Fruitvale Station is …
From one man of integrity to another comes director Denzel Washington's adaptation of an essay penned by Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan). 1st Sgt. King kept a journal for his son to be read in the event he didn't return from Baghdad. This is his story.
Alabama logging worker Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) looks skyward towards the gap left by a recently felled tree, never dreaming of the hole in his life this foreshadowing shot would come to represent. McMillian fit the M.O. of a scapegoat, and he was wrongfully sentenced to death for killing Ronda …
Who says “dick jokes” have lost their power to appall and amuse? Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller star as a pack of lusty himbos in this better-than-average (and Apatow) raunch carnival. The title references that point in any “boy’s night out” sex comedy where Loyal She inquires …
Remorse is all one gets from Tom Clancy fans piqued over Paramount’s decision to modernize the author’s 1993 adventure thriller. They complain that the updating bowdlerized the source material. It didn’t seem to bother the Clancy estate much; the check cleared and his name is in the title. Three months …