Sorrentino may be coasting a bit after making his masterpiece, but fans of his particular brand of filmmaking will devour the surface pleasures here.

[xrr rating=3.25/5]If you hated Kick-Ass, stay the hell away from Kingsman: The Secret Service. But if you’re the type of viewer who can forgive comedic violence and tap into your inner comic geek, then Kingsman is a fun, but inconsequential, night at the movies. Just don’t take any of that too seriously, and you’ll be just fine. Based on the …

[xrr rating=2.5/5]When Brendan Gleeson’s Oxford professor tells his psychiatry students to “Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see,” that message is naturally meant more for the audience than his wide-eyed pupils. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” and helmed by director Brad Anderson (The Machinist), …

Get Carter is one of the all time great gangster flicks, a masterpiece of crime cinema that could have never been made any earlier than it was. By the beginning of the 1970s, the infamously rigorous British censorship system had begun to buckle under the experimentalism of the previous decade and changing social mores. Suddenly, what was acceptable to be …

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …