There are certain subjects in film that I have kind of complicated feelings towards. Some subjects, while enormously important and deserving of analysis through fiction and non-fiction, tend to be used very manipulatively. Things like slavery, 9/11, or the Holocaust are immensely monumental subjects that really should be […]
Well I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I decided to bring this series out when I learned one of the most critically lauded and beloved movies of 2015, Todd Haynes’ Carol, was based on a novel. And not just any novel, one written by […]
I really love Charlie Kaufman. His work has become some of the most inventive and fascinating films I’ve ever seen in my life. Being John Malkovich and Adaption were life-changing experiences for me, Eternal Sunshine was incredibly poignant and just gets more and more relevant as I get older, Synecdoche, New York is […]
I really liked Birdman. It definitely had issues, but overall I really enjoyed that movie, and though it was one of the best of 2014. So I was looking forward to future work from Alejandro Inarritu. And I was of course excited when I heard that his next […]
It’s pretty clear from this website that I’m a big fan of superheroes. Both comics and movies, really anything with superheroes can usually get a look from me. And Marvel superheroes in particular? Gold for me. I just love that universe, and pretty much any character in […]
2015 is going to be remembered for a lot of different things. Political, social, and cultural events seemed to be happening every other week, and I could easily see it being regarded as a pretty important year in the future. But I don’t really talk about important […]
I’ve mentioned before on this site that I really love Quentin Tarantino. I adore all of his movies, even Death Proof, and he’s just one of the most consistently enjoyable directors out there for me. I find him and his movies endlessly fascinating, and they are all building to […]
This is probably the hardest movie I’ve ever had to write about. Yeah, Spectre had a lot of baggage with me, since I have a deep love for that series, but Star Wars is a completely different animal. James Bond has taken up a lot of my life, […]
At some point, earlier in the year, one of the movie blogs I follow put up a list of trailers for movies that would be coming out this year that looked great. It’s a pretty typical kind of blog post, showing some cool trailers that may have […]
Film series that go past four movie can be a really mixed bag. Usually the first movie is actually pretty good, because clearly there was something there to make profitable, but more often than not the movies decrease in quality pretty quickly. Especially when you’re looking at a […]
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