Movie Review: Downsizing
Like Woody Allen, Alexander Payne is going to be a filmmaker that I will never love like the world does. While others praised Nebraska as …
Sci-Fi
Movie Review: The Shape of Water
I never really thought of Guillermo Del Toro as anything other than a really cool sci fi director for a long time. And then I …
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
*Insert General SPOILER warning for anyone who hasn’t seen this movie yet.
Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner is widely recognized as the precursor to modern Science Fiction movies. Philip K. Dick became the go to for source material, overpopulated dirty …
Movie Review: Okja
Bong Joon Ho is in a war with Chan-wook Park for the title of best living director from Korea. Park stormed out of the gate …
Movie Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian is Luc Besson updating the 5th Element for the kids. The 5th Element let the director go a little loopy and dig deep into …
Movie Review: Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant represents everything that is wrong with nostalgia based moviemaking. Let’s use a transcendent, genre subverting franchise to tell the SAME story but with …
Movie Review: The Discovery
There are many great sins in movie making, but The Discovery commits the biggest one. Boasting a terrific premise with a stellar cast, the movie …
Movie Review: Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell is about seeing CGI’ed naked Scarlett Johansson, which is great. It is also about someone who doesn’t feel quite right in …
Movie Review: Back to the Future
Generic [SPOILER ALERT] Time Travel as a concept is great for storytelling. Screenwriters must love the chance to weave twisty, crazy stories that double back …