Trying to cram Stephen King's massive tome It into one movie was always going to be an impossible task. The decision back in 2014, when the It project was still a Cary Fukunaga project and not an Andi Muschietti joint, to split the movies by timeline certainly was controversial as King's weaving between the past and present lent the …
For the last half-decade or so, cinephiles and Quentin Tarantino-fans have been sifting the tea leaves with every new Tarantino release to see if he was looking to stop after making ten movies, a claim he has insisted on multiple times. With Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood, his presumably penultimate film, we finally get …
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(As the title above suggests, this review will contain SPOILERS. Proceed at your own discretion.) There is no more an unenviable task than trying to stick the landing on a finale. This is even more so when that finale happens to be the capstone to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a sprawling 11 year and 22 movie …
At some point in every kid's life they have probably spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming about what it would be like to be a superhero. Shazam!, the latest in DC Comic's cinematic universe, is the first of the genre to directly tap into that childhood wish fulfillment as it reimagines Big as a superhero movie, thus …
(Obviously there will be some SPOILERS in this post. Do with that what you will.) Let me get this out of the way first: Captain Marvel the character, as portrayed quite brilliantly by Brie Larson, is awesome. Along with Black Panther she quickly vaults into the upper echelon of interesting Marvel superheroes I can't wait to see …
Perhaps nothing shows the monumental shift of how much our world has changed than to remember that it was only a century ago that the world engaged in a brutal and pointless global conflict in which horses, flesh, and steel mounted up against canons, machine guns, and mustard gas. The conflict resulted in such a …
When tackling issues of racial injustice and inequality, the default emotions we run with are typically outrage and anger. These emotions run hot and are a lot easier to harness as motivation for activism and action. However the drawback is that they also burn fast, leaving us depleted and burnt out as quickly as we …
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In our cinematic age of uber-franchises dominating theatres across the globe, no two franchises have suffered as much ridicule and fan-rage as the Transformers movie series and the DC Comics Extended Universe (DCEU). The Transformers franchise – based on a 1980s cartoon that was blatantly an extended toy commercial – found its reputation ground into …
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Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) is a director who has long reveled in making his audience disoriented and uncomfortable. Whether in explicitly disturbing us or in pushing us up against our social mores he has made a career out of eliciting nervous laughter with his macabre sense of humor. His …
Look, I understand how you might be feeling. This is the seventh Spider-Man movie since 2002 and the fourth reboot. Your base instinct is to ask if another Spider-Man movie is at all necessary. Well in this case, the answer is unequivocally yes. From Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – the minds that brought you 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, and theoretically …
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