It was announced yesterday that there would be no press on the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Joker. No interviews are to be conducted. This comes after the news that, several times in the last month, Joaquin Phoenix has walked out of interviews when asked questions about the film possibly inciting violence, inspiring the kind of people that the film is about. I … Continue reading Joker : Humanization & Today’s Social Climate
If you all know at least one thing about me by now, it’s that I freaking love 1990s action films. Nine times out of ten they are cheesy and ignore science completely and I am in love with them. 1997’s Anaconda is no exception. Let’s talk about the fact that the CGI snake cost $100,000 every second that it was on screen and it is … Continue reading 90s Flashback: Anaconda (1997)
I was interested in seeing the film Hustlers after hearing a lot of award buzz about Jennifer Lopez’s performance. Otherwise, not too much attracted me to it. Regardless of the film being good or bad, it’s just not really my kind of film. But I went to see it and, although Lopez’s performance is the best of her career, that’s not saying much when you … Continue reading Hustlers (2019)
I don’t know that I have ever been so let down or underwhelmed by a films ending as I was with the ending to A Simple Favor. This is a film that I have wanted to see for a while. I love Paul Feig as a filmmaker, and Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are lovely. I love a good mystery and, for the most part, … Continue reading A Simple Favor (2018)
Does everybody remember Disney’s animated Pinocchio? No? Allow me to refresh your memory: We have a woodworker named Geppetto, who seems to be lonely, despite his weirdly human pet cat and fish. One night, he wished he had a child. And then, the Blue Fairy (not to be mistaken for the Green Fairy) kind of, sort of grants him that wish. She turns the wooden … Continue reading Revisiting Disney: Pinocchio (1940)
I was nervous for this film for two reasons. The first being that the expectations that the audience was going to have for this film were going to be high, due to how well the first film performed. The second reason was because I am well aware of the ending of the novel and how hard that can be to portray on screen with no … Continue reading It: Chapter 2 (2019)
I have never reviewed 47 Meters Down on this site, so let me briefly tell you what I think of that film. 47 Meters Down is a shark film filled with inaccuracies (as most shark movies are), but I will watch it anytime it is streaming. So, it comes as no surprise that I went to see the “sequel” 47 Meters Down: Uncaged in theaters. I gave them … Continue reading 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
To put it simply, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was made so Quentin Tarantino could rewrite the Manson murders. At least, that’s what I took from it. The film, for lack of a better description, felt like Tarantino was jacking himself off for the too long run time of two hours and forty one minutes. It’s a completely self-indulgent film. It’s also one that thrusts … Continue reading Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
I was recently rewatching Raiders of the Lost Ark for fun. I have loved the film since I was a child. It’s one that was shown to me on one of the movie nights my family and I would have when I was growing up. It wasn’t until I was older, however, that I realized two things about this so-called hero: 1. He is, or … Continue reading Indiana Jones and the Problematic “Hero”
I never want to live in a world where, in order to destroy an asteroid headed right for Earth, NASA sends oil drillers with no astronaut experience to, first, land on the asteroid, second, drill 800 feet into the asteroid, and third, shoot a nuclear missile into said asteroid to split it in two. Like, if the scenario of a large asteroid coming towards Earth … Continue reading 90s Flashback: Armageddon (1998)
