One of the bigger movie surprises of last year was the arrival of Creed. The seventh Rocky film managed to be one of the best reviewed of the year, and even ended up on The Movie Mensch’s Top 15 of 2015. Now — if you missed it or simply want […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
The Christmas comedy that is so much more than a straight holiday film has come home on DVD and Blu-Ray. The Night Before stars Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie and Joseph Gordon Levitt as three longtime friends who, for over a decade, have gotten together on the night before Christmas for […]
The Night Before Blu-Ray Review: Ho-Ho-Hilarious!
MTV has announced the nominees for its annual jaunt into the Hollywood awards business. The nominees for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards finds the movie that also won the 2015 box office race, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will make up for its lack of Oscars with 11 nominations, including […]
MTV Movie Awards Nominees Revealed: The Force Awakens Leads with ...
From that latest Captain America: Civil War trailer, we got a good impression which Avengers superhero will be on which side of the Iron Man/Cap battle. But, with the release of the character posters for the highly anticipated third Captain America film, we now know exactly who is on which […]
Captain America Civil War: Meet Team Iron Man Character Posters
Captain America is coming at audiences for his third solo movie on May 6 and it will be the beginning of the end for The Avengers, or so it appears. Before they unite back together to fight the Infinity War (Part 1 and 2), they first have to be split […]
Captain America Civil War: Meet Team Cap Character Posters
Disney is no stranger to animal-only films that charm. But there is something utterly unique, powerful and profound about their latest, Zootopia. The film chronicles the goings-on in a metropolis that bears the film’s moniker. It is a city comprised solely of animals, there are no humans. And yes, predators […]
Zootopia Review: Take Me Down to the Animal City
After banking $161 million at the box office, it’s easy to see why Olympus Has Fallen would get a sequel. But, once you’ve had the White House taken over and a formerly disgraced Secret Service Agent named Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) has saved the POTUS (Aaron Eckhart) and America’s house, […]
London Has Fallen Review: Actioner Heads Across the Pond
When Kim Baker sat down to write her book chronicling her experiences as a war reporter for a major network in Afghanistan, she probably never imagined her tale would make it to the big screen. It has, thankfully as it is a fantastic piece exploring many themes — most notably the place […]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Review: Tina Fey Triumphs
When that 10 Cloverfield Lane trailer debuted out of left field, no one was more thrilled than The Movie Mensch. As a huge fan of the J.J. Abrams film Cloverfield, we eagerly await the March 11 release of the “blood relative” sequel that we didn’t even know was coming until […]