Movie Review: Dream Scenario
So now we have the Nic Cage pattern. Every other year he makes a deranged scenery chewing spectacle. And the following year he takes what …
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Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Let’s start here: of the YA adaptations starting with Twilight The Hunger Games are probably the most interesting ones. For a series aimed at teenagers, …
Movie Review: El Conde
Around October, moviegoers must suffer through an endless assault of vampire retreads or lazy attempts to make a quick buck. Rarely do you see a …
Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Harrison Ford didn’t need to do Dial of Destiny. He’s already a legend. But it certainly sounds like of all the characters he’s played he …
Movie Review: Beau Is Afraid
Terrible thing to live, in fear. All I want is for things to make sense, where I won’t have to be afraid all the time. …
Movie Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Of course Carlos the Dwarf started it all. John Francis Daley, Sam Weir from Freaks & Geeks, was in one of the first pop culture …
Movie Review: Rosaline
“The fair Rosaline whom thou so loves.” Before even a whisper of Juliet, Romeo had a thing for Rosaline, another fair maiden of the Capulet …
Movie Review: Troll
When it comes to filmmaking there’s plenty of cross pollination across cultures. The best usually find the best right? The legendary Akira Kurosawa was influenced …
Movie Review: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
The greatest movie that will ever be made about existential doubt from a creative mind is Frederico Fellini’s 8 1/2. While self-indulgent a bit, that …
Movie Review: Legend
What a fascinating snapshot in movie history. I had never heard of Legend until VERY recently, but it catches people at all sorts of ascending/descending …