Brian Roan

[Review] The Shallows

The sun is shining on a pristine, secluded beach -- a kind of cove consisting of white sand, a coral reef, and an outlying island that looks like a woman in rep...

[Review] Finding Dory

The ocean is a big, diverse setting for a movie, consisting as it does of environments both brutal and beautiful. In Finding Nemo, one of its most celebrated fi...

[Review] Now You See Me 2

To say that the world of magic or magicians is having a renaissance might be overselling things a bit, but it cannot be denied that films related to the world o...

[Review] Warcraft

The mortal sin of any movie adaptation based on an intellectual property with a sufficient amount of weirdness or oddity is to be ashamed of its origins. Often ...