We live in a very strange time for blockbuster cinema. For whatever reason it has become both culturally popular and financially successful to mine what used to be known as nerd culture for the next big hit. And, it works. I mean, we seem to be living […]
Last year Avengers: Infinity War was unleashed upon an unsuspecting public, breaking many a person’s spirits and setting up a year-long wait to see just what was going to happen. Leading up to that film, everyone was expecting it to be a triumphant conclusion to the mad ten-year […]
Over the last decade there have been quite a few groups attempting to disrupt the animation world that has been pretty solidified by Disney and Pixar. Last year’s amazing Into the Spider-Verse was one of the biggest examples of this, really trying to evolve what we think an animated […]
It’s a common complaint that too many major studio movies these days are based on superhero comic books. I personally am someone who enjoys these types of stories, so I can kind of give it a pass, but it’s impossible to deny that the comic book has […]
We’ve found ourselves in a veritable golden age of Stephen King adaptations. In the 45 years that King has been establishing himself as the master of written horror, his bibliography has proven to be a pretty fertile ground in terms of adaptations. A majority of his books […]
For quite a while the idea of new film in the DC Extended Universe would be a pretty bleak one. The franchise started out incredibly poorly, dishing out three of the absolute worst superhero films ever made, establishing this new connected universe as a grim, petulant, and […]
There can be certain creators that just never get on your wavelength. It’s not a bad thing, everybody’s different, but it can be a little confounding when you see praise heaped upon someone whose work just doesn’t seem the slightest bit interesting to you. There are a […]
It’s now clear that we’re going to be enduring a whole bunch of “live-action” Disney remakes. When this all began, it seemed like a strange endeavor that could potentially lead to interesting things. But, it’s so far been a crapshoot whether the movies actually are worth it. Cinderella was […]
In 2017 we were given one of the year’s biggest surprised in the form of Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out. I never ended up writing about Get Out when it first came out because I got tremendously sick the day after seeing it, and by the time I could finally […]
Boy, it sure has been a slow year for movies so far, huh? We’ve had a couple of really great movies, and it seems like things are going to start kicking into high gear shortly, but so far the first three months have been kind of weak, […]
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