When the Marvel Cinematic Universe began, it seemed like they were going to have to struggle to get people interested. Way back in 2008 it seemed like Marvel was going to have to work harder than most when creating their superhero films, because they has a much […]
Edgar Wright appears to have gotten wishes from a genie or sold his soul, because every single film he’s created has been terrific. He’s up there with the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino as one my most consistently favorite directors. He really hasn’t had a single failure […]
While I really and truly love film, I can sometimes be a little conflicted with it. Because it’s truly a culmination of a variety of endeavors, becoming a balance of visuals, music, story, acting and any number of elements that come together to make a truly great […]
Who doesn’t love a good monster movie? No one, that’s who. And there’s really no better purveyor of quality monster flicks than Universal. Well, except maybe Hammer, but forget about that, we’re talking about Universal right now. The Universal Monsters are some of the most famous and […]
I think it would be safe to say that I am not a fan of the DC Extended Universe. So far we’ve had three films in this series, trying desperately to throw together a slap-dash cinematic universe, and they’ve been three of the worst superhero movies I’ve ever […]
Hey, do you remember when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out almost fifteen years ago? It was a pretty great time, right? Everyone made fun of it, laughing about how ridiculous it was that Hollywood was so creatively bankrupt that they had to adapt a theme park […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been built on risk. When it began they didn’t have the rights to any of their most profitable and well-known characters. But they worked on making these lesser-known characters as interesting as possible, all while building up to the ambition Avengers. And they’ve struck […]
Back in 2013 I started to hear a lot of positive buzz about a new novel from Dave Eggers called The Circle. It was basically described as a semi-dystopia about an all-powerful technology company, similar to Google, and it’s transformation into a regime. It sounded like a very interesting and […]
We really take the size of the world for granted. We can now quickly peep in on any place on Earth, seeing what different countries look like, and how people live their lives with a click of a button. But for most of human history we had a […]
When you’re a movie lover you can sometimes feel like you’ve seen everything before. It reaches the point that you kind of trick yourself into thinking that there’s nothing new that can be made. That you’ve seen every story done in every way it possibly could. But then […]
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