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 …
"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3) I first showed My Neighbor Totoro to my oldest child when she was two. It wasn't the first movie I had attempted to show her, but in all my previous attempts she only ever …
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It doesn't take very long for Jordan Peele to reacclimatize you with the same dread he so expertly employed in his debut film Get Out. In the opening scene of his latest movie Us he drops us into a near-perfect horror short film. As her family enjoys a day at a fun fair, a little girl is …
I'll be honest: the thought of returning to Grave of the Fireflies caused me enough anxiety as to make me nauseous. And don't get me wrong, it's not because the movie is bad. Instead the reason I had only seen this movie once prior to this review is because it is easily amongst the most emotionally devastating …
(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 …
Pazu, a young boy tirelessly working in a mining town, is thrown into an adventure when Sheeta literally but quite unexpectedly falls out of the the sky into his life. This moment sets off a breakneck-paced romp through the skies as Pazu and Sheeta find themselves drawn into a conflict between corrupt governments and rascally …
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 …
Hollywood is generally not known for being the most "truth-telling" of industries. It is an industry that makes bank by over-dramatizing mundane real-life situations, it dresses up romance to be unrealistically spectacular and thus unachievable, and it peddles in entertaining action and violence while shielding the audience from that violence's real-life implications. But there is …
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 …
Continue reading If Beale Street Could Talk (Big Screen Review)
Generally speaking I don't cry in the movie theatre. Being teased relentlessly in childhood for being a crybaby has, for better or worse, trained me to develop stiff upper lips and emotional dams that rarely flood over (we can discuss how unhealthy this is for me another time). But one of the few occasions that …
Continue reading Studio Ghibli #0: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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