Well folks, after mentioning the narrative whiplash effect that I’ve been experiencing lately switching between Catch Me If You Can and Oldboy, it turns out that I got ahead of myself. Because things are taking an even sharper turn this week, with a very different tale of familial love, the Incredibles! I […]
It’s damn-near impossible to create a series of films that can maintain a standard of quality throughout the entire run. More often than not series’ end with a thud, unable to maintain the momentum that they were able to build in the previous installments, making you question […]
A few years ago my brother and I popped into a movie theater, ready to watch a movie that we had virtually no expectations for. As you can probably assume, that movie was The Lego Movie, a film that I really had no idea what to expect from. The […]
It’s been a great couple years to be a fan of Spider-Man. The comics have been in pretty rare form, what with Dan Slott ending his stories tenure as the primary writer of our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Chip Zdarsky pushing Spider-Man and his interpersonal relationships into […]
I think by now it should be pretty clear that I’m a big fan of the animated shows create by Matt Groening. I spent a staggering amount of my life watching and discussing every single episode of the Simpsons, and despite the serious ebbs and flows of quality […]
Seven weeks ago we had a pretty momentous installment of Cinematic Century when All Quiet on the Western Front introduced us to the wonderful world of sound with the first talkie to be featured on this project. And today we’ll be adding another first for this project with the […]
Genres in film tend to ebb and flow over time. We get obsessed with particular genres, and lose interest in others. Currently we’re fascinated with superhero action movies, but given time it will fade away to join the ranks of Westerns, Fantasy, and Adventures movies to genre-fare that […]
We’ve had a pretty crappy couple of months, haven’t we? The world seems like a total mess, in ways that seem even worse than they’ve been in my entire life. That’ll probably not shake out later, since I’m sure most times are crappy, but it sure seems like […]
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