October Issue 1 2012
It’s distracting at first: the fact that you’re looking at Joseph Gordon-Levitt but he doesn’t look exactly like the Joseph Gordon-Levitt you’ve come to know and love. Aren’t his eyes brown? Isn’t his nose longer and thinner? Even the blasé smirk on his face seems like an unfamiliar expression given his usual likable, boyish cool.
The fourth film in the Bourne franchise, “The Bourne Legacy,” may seem heady and intentionally disorienting and hard to follow at first — until you realize it’s really about drug addiction, and the lengths to which a junkie will go to get his fix.
August Issue 1 2012
Suburban paranoia can be as funny as it can be dangerous. But in “The Watch,” which was renamed from “Neighborhood Watch” to distance itself from the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida, the threat to an ordered Ohio town isn’t anything with contemporary resonance. It’s just aliens.
July Issue 4 2012
Christopher Nolan concludes his Batman trilogy in typically spectacular, ambitious fashion with “The Dark Knight Rises,” but the feeling of frustration and disappointment is unshakable.
July Issue 2 2012
The sun, in its various hues and levels of intensity, plays an important role in Oliver Stone’s latest, “Savages.”
June Issue 4 2012
“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”: Those four words, strung together in that order, sound like a lot of fun, don’t they?
May Issue 4 2012
“Battleship” is big, dumb fun that knows it’s big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.
May Issue 3 2012
Though he’s currently busy turning heads as a Hollywood actor, Chugiak’s Talon Wild has a much more Alaskan dream in mind.
May Issue 1 2012
After a series of summer blockbusters that individually introduced Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America, all these characters come together alongside several other friends and foes in “Marvel’s The Avengers."
