Cinema Excelsior

The Cinema Excelsior crew braves its first remake, as we take on Jonathan Hensleigh's 2004 film The Punisher, starring Thomas Jane and John Travolta. Surprisingly, we found this flawed film inspired our most interesting and philosophical conversation yet, revealing itself as one of the most interesting - if not particularly wonderful - entries into this period of the Marvel canon.

The Cinema Excelsior crew gets angry with Ang Lee as we trudge through 2003's interminable Hulk, starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, and Nick Nolte. There's also some Roger Rabbit fan fiction in there.

With X-Men: Days of Future Past dropping this weekend, the Cinema Excelsior crew invites you to journey all the way back to 2003, when this franchise made the leap from good-time popcorn fluff to thoughtful, sophisticated entertainment (but before the - ahem - unpleasant business that followed). X2 is a seminal installment in not only this series, but in the comic movie canon. Does it hold up more than a decade after its release? SPOILER: Yes, but what's most interesting is why.

It's the film we swore to never watch again, but boy are we glad we did! The "Cinema Excelsior" team wanted to know if Mark Steven Johnson's original vision for his cinematic disaster was an improvement over what hit the screen - and believe it or not, it absolutely was! Join us as we explain what makes the director's cut of "Daredevil" a film worth watching. Featuring Nick Bestor, Stefan Claypool, Patrick Regan, and Daniel Watson-Jones.

The Cinema Excelsior crew blindly grasps for hidden quality, as we take on "Daredevil."