Film Essay
Now that the Oscars have come and gone once again, it's time to not whine about snubs, or the winners, or really anything about the ceremony itself, but celebrate the overlooked. To close out my 2018 overview I thought it would be a fun time going over an
Film Essay
Disclaimer: This post was originally written in June of 2018 and scheduled at that time until it was lost. Recently discovered it is getting a second chance at life in 2019, even if it's a little irrelevant now. The cinema going experience within the domestic world of Hollywood
Best of Lists
This is what you've been waiting for! But in case you haven't read my previous 15 favorite films you can here (25-21) and (20-11) 10. Avengers: Infinity War After the ending to the first Avengers movie every comic fan was waiting for this. Now,
Best of Lists
Read my picks for 25-21 HERE Continuing where I left off... 20. Blindspotting 2018 had numerous films that were socially, and culturally, relevant. Blindspotting, Carlos López Estrada's directorial debut, showcases a haunting story about a man that's three days away from the end of his
Best of Lists
Last year had been very difficult for most people, myself included. Thankfully, 2018 was one of the best years for film in recent memory, sending out fantastic escapism, thoughtful indies, and timely films. Thus it made this list incredibly difficult that I kept putting it off, and putting it off,
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Every year has its bad eggs. Usually its the giant blockbuster trying to get multiple audiences, and thus being incoherent and overstuffed for no reason. Other times it can be an independent film that is interesting and playing with visual meanings, but ultimately doesn't hold your attention nor
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Roma opens with sound. The sound of water cascading to and fro, the chitter chatter of birds in the air, and even some people off in the distance. Tiled floor splashed by water is the first image that greets you on the screen, accompanied by the sound of someone scrubbing
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Dr. Seuss is a giant in children's literature creating such works as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and his most famous story How the Grinch Stole Christmas with that being adapted the most. The television special with Boris Karloff is most likely how the
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Robin Hood is the latest victim of a classic story being reinvented and turned gritty...and hip. Joining the ranks of Alice in Wonderland, Power Rangers, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters, Robin Hood is yet another unnecessary movie where the story comes last when
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Steve McQueen comes back to the directing chair after his award winning 12 Years A Slave with a powerful film about strong, and hurt, women coming together for their first and final heist. Viola Davis loses her husband in a heist gone wrong, after finding out what her late husband
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Forty years ago John Carpenter put out a film that changed horror forever. Since then film has been using his Halloween as a template for the upcoming subgenre of horror, slashers. Since 1978 the Halloween franchise has churned out ten films, fairly regularly, with a confusing continuity that is all
2018 films
What Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom tries to do is admirable, however, continuing with what didn't work in Jurassic World, and expanding upon it in a semi-Lost World remake, leaves the viewer with a piece that is conflicted, dark yet campy, and a set of ideas that are