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Movies! Movies! Movies! There’s no business like the show business, right folks? With our movie reviews and articles, we aim for deeper analysis into the themes and contexts of each movie we watch. That takes time, so we usually won’t be first to review a movie, but we damn well will write deeply about the subject. There’s a painting in every frame and meaning behind the action.
Why did a character do something? Why did the film show a scene? What’s the connection between scenes? We ask these questions so we can enjoy our cinema on our more profound level.
We focus mainly on the more nerdly pursuits in our movie reviews–sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book movies. That doesn’t mean we won’t throw in an interesting movie in another genre here and there. Just because we’re nerds, doesn’t mean we have narrow interests, right?
Age quod agis.
Some franchises transcend both their genres and the first medium their stories appear in. They become a part of the cultural fabric so quickly that everyone knows something about them. Interestingly, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games earned this place in our culture very quickly. In little more than a decade, a simple dystopian YA novel […]
SPOILERS AHEAD! Major plot points and twists discussed in this review. Avengers: Endgame is pretty much the superhero movie of the decade, with a $1.2 billion worldwide opening weekend and is likely to have the most reviews written for any comic book movie ever (currently #1 on IMDB for popularity and already 322 critic reviews). […]
Note: Spoilers ahoy in this Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse review. I’ve just watched one of the most refreshing, vibrant takes on Spider-Man to hit any form of media. I’m talking about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse of course. You need to catch this aesthetically alive, breathtaking dive into the Spider mythos while it’s in theaters. Satisfy your […]
About halfway through The Titan, I paused the movie and thought to myself, “why did I decide to watch this garbage?” Well, if I’m honest, it’s because it was the hot new sci-fi film being published by Netflix and their algorithms scored me at a 98% match. Oh you tricky, tricky Netflix engineers. I’m going […]
A few days ago I posted an article about the new Wes Anderson movie “Isle of Dogs” to my Facebook account. It was an article about how some reviewers noticed that the movie was marginalizing Japanese culture. I expected the usual, a few friends like it, a few friends post some comments that agree with […]
First, let’s get this out of the way: Marvel’s new Black Panther movie is an excellent movie that captivates you in its splendor. The characters are compelling, the plot is thrilling, the cinematography/set design/costumes are great, the themes are treated intelligently, fight choreography is handled well, the villian is memorable, and it just exudes cool. If […]
Death NOT Warning: Spoilers to Follow Warner Brother’s adaptation of a Japanese manga, Death Note, follows more closely along to its source material than I expected. They keep all the awkward names and it’s littered with references left and right. At the same time, the 2017 adaptation comes off as inconsistent in various ways, such […]
3rd Time’s a Charm? Spider-Man Homecoming just came out the other day and has been getting massive praise. Let’s find out if Spider-man’s third translation to the big screen is a charm by asking a local enthusiast. I will be interviewing myself in this article where I give you just enough information for you to […]
The Pokemon Craze Lives On It’s been over twenty years now and these little monsters have moved out of our pockets and into our hearts. Last year Niantic released Pokemon Go, a smartphone app that blew up more than anyone could have imagined. To keep up this momentum Nintendo released Pokemon Sun and Moon later […]
If you haven’t heard, Ghost in the Shell–a classic anime–is now in theaters in a re-imagined American adaptation. The movie had a disappointing opening weekend with a take of only $19 million, behind Beauty and the Beast and Boss Baby. Not the best news for a movie with a $110 million budget. One possible reason is the […]