Jacob Boon

It’s too soon to judge the historical impact of Wikileaks, but true to its subject matter, The Fifth Estate is coming out anyhow. Everyone’s new boyfriend Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the white-haired Bond villain Julian Assange, here viewed through the eyes of German hacker Daniel Domscheit-Berg as they build their Wikileaks empire and start to […]

An obscure English play gets adapted, yet again, in the entirely unnecessary Romeo and Juliet. The annoyingly named Juliet Capulet (Hailee Steinfeld) and playboy Romeo Montague (Douglas Booth) fall madly in love despite their families’ longstanding blood feud. Spoiler alert! Things don’t end well. Director Carlo Carlei takes no risks with his lukewarm attempt at […]

Made over a weekend with a budget of twenty bucks, Machete Kills exists. In a movie that’s entirely stunt-casted, super-killing human weapon Machete (Danny Trejo, looking his age) returns on a secret mission from the US president (Charlie Sheen, that’s the joke) to hunt down a Mexican terrorist attempting to nuke Washington with help from […]

Ever have one of those days? Captain Phillips has, stuck at sea for a week after being kidnapped by pirates in the simply titled Captain Phillips. Based off the book that’s based off the real events, the film follows the 2009 hijacking of container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, and subsequent kidnapping and rescue […]

Justin Timberlake should have just developed another social network instead of spending his Princeton days losing money to online casinos in the hammy Runner Runner. After he presumes to have been cheated, Timberlake’s math wizard heads to Costa Rica to confront metaphor.poker.net’s owner, inevitably getting engrossed in the fast cars, loose women, big bucks lifestyle […]

It’s terror at 1.34 million feet in the deeply astonishing Gravity. At the tail-end of a routine spacewalk, astronauts Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are beset upon by shards of satellite shrapnel that separate them from NASA and make any chance of survival a virtual impossibility. Clooney’s mainly along for his charm, but it’s Bullock […]

The boring devil is in the details for the historical drama Parkland. John F. Kennedy is a young, charismatic American president on a routine trip to Texas in 1963. The fate of that journey (spoilers: it doesn’t go well) are told through the ancillary characters least important to history in this Peter Landesman film. James […]

A lot of sweaty men yell and scream in pleasure during the “IMAX 3D experience” Metallica: Through the Never. Dozens of cameras capture the elaborate, fantastical goings on during a Metallica concert, as the band rattles through their hits in front of thousands of jubilant thirty-somethings. Interspersed throughout is a narrative about a young roadie’s […]

Picking up directly from the end of the first film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Nuageux avec une chance de boulettes de viande deux) continues its predecessor’s frenetic pace, while creating some disturbing questions around the ethics of eating. Bill Hader returns to voice a young inventor who must go back to his […]

Fans of Formula One history might already know all about James Hunt and Niki Lauda’s 1976 season, but the expertly-woven Rush thankfully takes a suspenseful time getting there. Thor‘s Thor, Chris Hemsworth charismatically stars as Hunt, a reckless bad boy of the racing world who’s lives just as fast as he drives. Lauda (played with […]