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Movie Review - As Ridiculous and Funny as the First, 'Deadpool 2' Also Has a Surprising Amount of Heart
Posted by Jason Ingolfsland on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 12:00 AM By Jason Ingolfsland / June 7, 2018 Comment
Despite its meta, fourth-wall breaking, slapstick, raunchy, and silly humor, Deadpool 2 insists its a family movie with a whole lot of heart. The joke, of course, is in the contradiction. Like its predecessor, this movie makes fun of everything, everyone, even itself, all in an attempt to get a laugh out of the audience. Needless to say, Deadpool is a cynical hero in a cynical age, but he doesn’t want us to be like him. He wants us to be better than him. Much of that motivation may sound corny, but it plays out fairly well in the story. Still, its noble effort...

Movie Review -- 'Deadpool' is Violent, Raunchy and Full of Fun
Posted by Jason Ingolfsland on Monday, February 15, 2016 at 12:00 AM By Jason Ingolfsland / February 15, 2016 Comment

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Directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Deadpool, on paper, should have been a major failure. With a green director, an R rating, the February release, and years of production problems and delays, it was guaranteed a box office flop -- but it beat the odds and provided a satisfying superhero comedy with plenty of heart, action, and violence. Comic book fans need not worry. Deadpool lived up to his name and added a few chimichangas to the order. Deadpool is about Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), a former Special Forces operative turned...

'Self/Less' is a Point/Less Summer Thriller
Posted by Ryan Sanderson on Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 12:00 AM By Ryan Sanderson / July 11, 2015 Comment

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Self/Less – presumably a working title nobody ever got around to fixing – takes Ben Kingsley and turns him into Ryan Reynolds. If you find that trick impressive, you should give me a hundred dollar bill and see what I do with that. Kingsley plays Damien, a millionaire architect who is dying of cancer. He’s approached by an ominous British scientist named Albright who developed the technique of “shedding” or moving someone’s consciousness from one body to another. The body Kingsley is eyeing belongs to Reynolds, and after a moment or two in a souped up MRI machine, voila! The Faustian pact is complete. ...