Written by Taylor Baker 22/100 Entirely absent of something personal being told, as well as the feeling of something much bigger than us. The successful run that the 1990's and early 2000's Clancy films leaned on were the pendulum like … Continue reading.
Written by Anna Harrison In these retrospectives, Anna will be looking back on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, providing context around the films, criticizing them, pointing out their groundwork for the future, and telling everyone her favorite scene, because her opinion … Continue reading.
Written by Alexander Reams 62/100 Loud noises, going in a straight path, exotic colors, wild outfits, in this race a star can be born, I could be describing RuPaul’s Drag Race, alas I am not. Instead, I am describing the … Continue reading.
Written by Michael Clawson 50/100 Several days into their first trip of the Spring to their cozy, lakeside cabin, elderly husband and wife Norman and Ethel are joined by their grown daughter Chelsea, from whom Norman is estranged, her new … Continue reading.
Written by Patrick Hao 20/100 The goal of Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall is stated in its opening title cards. “While the events of this story are fictional… These. People. Existed.” This platitude should be a warning to anyone … Continue reading.
Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 “In the beginning…” Thus Eternals, the latest offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, opens. It’s not very shy about its Biblical inspirations, as the opening scroll revamps the Book of Genesis by recasting God the … Continue reading.
Written by Alexander Reams 72/100 “You know: I'm drunk once again, here, listening to Tchaikovsky, on the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 years, ago.” In 1987 Charles Bukowski scribed the poem Death Is Smoking My Cigars, an existential and … Continue reading.
Written by Taylor Baker 78/100 Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh’s latest film Belfast is a love letter to a time gone by. Like a mid-size jawbreaker, you know what it is from the outset, but there’s no way to speed up the … Continue reading.
Written by Patrick Hao 58/100 Double Walker represents another entry in the trend of horror movies dealing with the terror of misogyny inflicted on young women that even started before the MeToo movement with films like A Girl Walks Home … Continue reading.
Written by Michael Clawson 60/100 Slippery and sensuous, Fever Dream is an immersion in a woman’s frightened, discombobulated headspace. When we first meet Amanda (María Valverde), she’s lying in a stupor in a marshy forest, her vision blurry, her body … Continue reading.
