Category: Reel Talk

Men Make Monsters or: Why is Ultron so Mean?

Back in May, like most geeks, I was super excited about seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, I’m going to write about that movie, and its various strength and shortcomings, but I kind of want to watch it again before I do that, so I’ll probably wait until […]

The Peril of Showbiz

So this weekend I had a very strange double feature, that while I didn’t plan it this way, ended up being oddly similar films that really nailed home an interesting concept. Hollywood sucks. I’m a real sucker for Meta movies that are about filmmaking. And I’m not talking […]

Kill Bill, the Remixed Movie

Quentin Tarantino is one of my favorite directors, mainly because, similarly to the Coen brothers, Tarantino seems to be one of the biggest film geeks in the world. You get the feeling that Tarantino has seen every movie ever made, and his own films become a kind of […]