Armani Barron and Alex Kirschenbaum dissect whether or not the sleekly-marketed Charlize Theron retro-spy adventure “Atomic Blonde” is actually cool… or if it was all just a disappointing tease (the name of this post might ...
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“Atomic” Bore: A Critical Exchangecore
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The DCEU Finally Captures Some “Wonder”
Over the past two weeks, your trusty Filmcore panel of (in alphabetical order) Armani Barron, Alex Kirschenbaum, and Emily NS saw Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman,” the best movie in the DC Extended Universe that began ...
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30 Years Later, “Howard The Duck” Still Sucks
This month marks the 30th birthday of “Howard the Duck,” that infamous anti-masterpiece vomited out into the world by George Lucas on August 1st, 1986. This monstrosity of a film documents the inspirational story of ...
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“Suicide” Blitz: Did David Ayer Save DC Movies?
Well, a LOT of us saw “Suicide Squad” this weekend. And a LOT of us didn’t like it all that much. Alex Kirschenbaum, Armani Barron and TJ Morrison break down why. Alex: My rating: ** ...
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“Apocalypse” Now: Has The “X-Men” Series Reached A Point Of No Return?
“X-Men: Apocalypse,” the ninth “X-Men” movie, opened in theaters last weekend with something between a bang and a thud: its domestic three-day weekend haul of $65.7 million, a steep drop from the $90 million three-day ...
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Filmcore’s Coast-to-Coast Thoughts on “Knight of Cups,” a.k.a. “Christian Bale Goes To The Beach”
Last week, Filmcore’s Alex Kirschenbaum and Chris McKee saw the latest Terry Malick tone poem so you don’t have to. And both Filmcore scribes agree, “Knight of Cups” was a meandering mess of a movie ...
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Filmcore Video – Ep. 2, “Black Mass” Critical Exchangecore
In which critics Alex Kirschenbaum and Charles Perry agree to disagree on this fall’s prestige gangster movie. Key quote: “This is a movie about, evidently, a vampire gangster who’s not an actual vampire but looks ...
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Filmcore Video – Ep. 1, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Critical Exchangecore
In which critics Alex Kirschenbaum and Mike Weldon agree to disagree on one of the decade’s most decadent Hollywood movies, an excessive reflection of the movers and shakers of the past (and a rumination on ...