The Bearded Trio

DEADPOOL 2 Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz,  T.J. Miller,  Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy and Eddie Marsan Screenplay by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds Directed by David Leitch Reviewed by Patrick Gibbs     Out of Four I'm late to the party on Deadpool. I hate red band trailers with a passion, because far too often they are used to sell the movie to the crowd that just cares about graphic content and hearing lots of curse words. That doesn't offend me on a moral level, but it does on an artistic and comedic one. The red band trailers for the original  Deadpool  were far more based around proving how R-Rated it could be than how funny it could be, and when I missed the press screening due to illness, I just couldn't get excited about seeing it.  When I did, there was a lot I liked, but I could not have cared less about the revenge story and despite all of the buzz about...

ONLY THE BRAVE Starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges James Badge Dale,  Taylor Kitsch, Jennifer Connelly Written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer Directed by Joseph Kozinki Reviewed by Patrick & Paul Gibbs  Out of Four Director Joseph Kosinksi made a name for himself with 2010's Tron: Legacy, but it wasn't necessarily a good name (in fairness, his name was "Kosinski" to begin with.). It was more of a mixed name - a guy who could create loud spectacles and give us eye popping visuals, but couldn't deliver substance or a cohesive story line -  and that mixed named only continued with Oblivion , which we maintain was an entertaining (if disposable) movie that unfortunately just felt far too much like too many genuine sci fi classics, from the overall   Ray Bradbury feel to the surprise twist that it turned out we were actually watching Duncan Jones' indie classic  Moon the whole time. The new recruit (Miles T...