Greenland Review: The Disaster Film Starring Butler and Baccarin
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Greenland Review: The Disaster Film Starring Butler and Baccarin

ByJoshua Starnes

If Hollywood is our guide, great natural disasters have no greater purpose than to focus on a long-standing interpersonal conflict (usually a married couple) and give the participants one big chance to clear it up. Mother Nature isn’t just the personification of our system of physical laws making sure the world works the way it…

The Gentlemen Review: The New Guy Ritchie Action Comedy

The Gentlemen Review: The New Guy Ritchie Action Comedy

ByJoshua Starnes

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Or alter it in any way? This is generally the studio approach to creative decision-making, and from a purely commercial standpoint, it makes sense. So much effort is spent finding something which works the first time, why take risks with reinvention? Sure it impacts longevity, but weighed against…