If I’m being honest, I’m still kind of shocked that the Academy gave the Best Picture award to Parasite. Of the films nominated I do think that Parasite was the clear best of the bunch, but the idea that the Academy would give their highest honor to a South Korean film […]
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 general I’m not one to get bent out of shape at the concept of remakes. Yeah, most remakes aren’t able to top the quality of the original film, but I’ve never understood the mentality of taking a remake as some sort of affront to the legacy […]
We’re at the point in the year where we’re about to be bombarded with the “important” movies of the year, the films that will be in contention to win all of the various awards the that movie industry have set up for themselves. The films that have […]
I really and truly love Disney. I completely understand people’s jaded complaints about the company and their products, but I’m a total sucker for them. They’ve perfected the formula for fairy tales, changing the way that fables and archetypal stories. But that doesn’t mean that I implicity trust […]
Remakes get a pretty bad rap in our world. They’re basically blamed as one of the key pieces of evidence of Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy, and one of the sure signs of a cinematic apocalypse. And hey, I’m not going to be the guy who tries to convince you […]
Sometimes it’s not easy being a geek. There are vocal minorities in the geek community that really make a bad name for the rest of us. There’s the psychotic DC fans who spew vitriol at anyone who dares say Batman v Superman was garbage, the morons who made […]
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