(Warning: SPOILERS are going to be discussed freely in this article so if you haven't seen the movie STAY AWAY. For a spoiler-free(ish) review click here.) In case the above warnings did not make it clear enough, this will be a debrief of Avengers: Infinity War which will include a discussion of MAJOR SPOILERS. It is safe to say that …
(SPOILER ALERT: Obviously plot details are going to be discussed in this review and if you don't want any of them revealed to you, then stop reading and just go watch the movie. I'm not going to give away any major plot developments in this review and I will save that for a different post, but …
Alice in Wonderland stands as the progenitor of one of the great storytelling traditions where regular humans find themselves stumbling into weird and wonderful fantasy worlds. Sometimes this happens for entirely superflous reasons but frequently these jaunts into the fantasy world help illuminate our own world in profoundly tangential ways. As this list will show, following …
Within five minutes of Alice in Wonderland opening Alice has followed a frantic rabbit down a hole and fallen into a zany portal of sorts with floating household objects only to land in a room reminiscent of a set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in which she encounters some biscuits that either shrink her to a mere fraction …
Agnès Varda is nothing short of a living legend. She will turn ninety next month and has been making films for seven decades which is remarkable considering in those seven decades very little has necessarily changed to make it easier for women directors to have a long career. She is one of the key filmmakers …
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Cinderella, which I revisited this week, is perhaps the archetypal example of the "rags-to-riches" fictional trope. It is a powerful trope because of the hope it inspires. It is the ultimate story of beating the odds against a brutal and unjust system, of someone coming good in spite of the numerous obstacles standing in the …
The fruitful Golden Age of Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s and 40s is a period of critical success unrivalled by most studios. In the space between 1937 and 1942 they released five powerhouses in a row in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. Each of those movies are iconic in their own right and instrumental …
As you may or may not guess, one does not get to a collection of over 2000 DVDs and Blu-Rays (which is admittedly a ridiculously sized collection) without being a little bit of a sucker for a bargain bin. And as you may or may not surmise, the quality of movies from said bargain bins …
You may be wondering (probably derisively) why in the world I put out a list of the best movies of 2017 four months into 2018, a full month after the Academy Awards are done, and when the world has generally moved on to other seemingly more important things? The most obvious reason is that due …
"Directed within an inch of its life" is typically not a comment that is complimentary to a movie or its director, and yet that is precisely the best way to generally describe the fantastic filmography of the fantastic director Wes Anderson. While most directors try their best to capture organic acting and want their films …
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