Matthew Macfadyen

As a fourth-wall breaking, foul-mouthed revitalization of comic-book film, "Deadpool & Wolverine" offers audiences hope for the future of the genre.

Even if it were not for Keira Knightley’s odd facial tics and total lack of intensity, Joe Wright’s lavishly-staged adaptation of Tolstoy’s Russian literature cornerstone Anna Karenina would still play like the tragic romance Oprah Winfrey thought she selected for her book club and made an unlikely 21st century bestseller. Gone are the long passages concerning the young, ascetic farmer Levi – Tols...[Read More]

Early on in The Three Musketeers, a guard smirks at a captured Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and says, “For a man of your reputation, I expected better.” I guess, by now, it’s sort of a waste to say the same of Paul W.S. Anderson. His first major studio effort, Mortal Kombat (his first actual film was the low-budget Shopping with a then-mostly unknown Jude Law), though based on a video game, was a surpr...[Read More]