Is Adam Sandler the Nicolas Cage of comedy?

Travis Johnson
I’m starting to think we’ve done the Sandman wrong. Adam Sandler is an interesting guy who’s had an interesting career. A genuinely gifted comic, he graduated from the skit comedy gladiator academy that is&...

Review: Fatman (2020)

Travis Johnson
Look, some concepts are just so wild that you have to take a look just to convince yourself that it’s real. Omit a few key details and Fatman, the latest feature from filmmaking siblings Eshom and Ian ...

Review: White Riot (2019)

Travis Johnson
London, 1976: The Queen’s Silver Jubilee is nigh, but the country is in the grips of a massive economic depression. The social fallout bifurcates: on the one hand, the alienated urban angst of the punk scene; ...

Review: Verotika (2020)

Travis Johnson
I’ll say one thing about Verotika, shock rocker Glenn Danzig’s batshit insane anthology horror flick: it proves how crude and ultimately useless star rating systems are. I shudder (and this thing is on Sh...

Review: The Boys Season 2 (2020)

Travis Johnson
Based on the controversial comic series by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) and artist Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), The Boys is proving to be exactly the kind of iconoclastic, irreverent, satir...

Review: The Wretched (2020)

Travis Johnson
Interesting bit of box office trivia: this low budget horror movie became the first film to top the U.S. box office for six weeks running since Avatar back in 2009, a feat largely made possible by th...