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Jurassic Park brought colorful dinosaurs to life on screen and used them to camouflage a poignant science fiction morality tale. 30 years later Jurassic World: Dominion is a Jurassic Park … Continue Reading Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) June 12th, 2022
You probably heard Top Gun: Maverick‘s a thrilling adventure flick with stunning practical effects that push the frontier of cinematography. It’s also a damn good time at the movies. If … Continue Reading Top Gun: Maverick (2022) June 8th, 2022
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent gets as close to a masterpiece as any Nicholas Cage movie can. The meta narrative pulls from some real aspects of Nicholas Cage’s life … Continue Reading The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) May 27th, 2022
Blogging about director Robert Eggers unique filmmaking voice is not the way to make one stand out. Nevertheless, here we are. The VVitch is an arresting treatise on the price … Continue Reading The Northman (2022) May 22th, 2022
Produced exclusively for Disney+, Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers follows the titular chipmunks as their attempt to revive their acting careers devolves into a mission to rescue a kidnapped friend. … Continue Reading Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) May 21st, 2022
I watched North By Northwest with my Dad at an Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX. It was our first time in one of their theaters and my first time seeing … Continue Reading North by Northwest (1959) March 20, 2022
The Happy Birthday to Me poster is a metaphor for the film itself. A kebab of entertainment with succulent cinematography/special effects, colorful but rubbery acting, and a rotten script. All … Continue Reading Happy Birthday to Me (1981) February 13th, 2022
Through its first four installments the Scream franchise successfully built a world where homicidal killers orchestrate intricate murders dependent on breaking down the fads and trends of popular horror films. … Continue Reading Scream (2022) January 15th, 2022
In the aptly titled Yoyo, a young clown’s life follows the same ups and downs as his father’s before he too learns wealth and fortune cannot buy happiness. The film … Continue Reading Yoyo (1965) January 9th, 2022
Defined as a ‘movie produced outside of a major studio’, the term ‘Independent Film’ used to be a hallmark of quality. Suggesting a pedigreed film capable of succeeding on its … Continue Reading Secret Santa (2015) December 25th, 2021
The French Dispatch is an anthology film from writer/director Wes Anderson comprised of three short stories contextualized as tales from the final issue of the titular fictional magazine. The first … Continue Reading The French Dispatch (2021) December 9th, 2021
In 2019 Martin Scorsese caught flack for saying Marvel movies aren’t cinema. “Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures. What’s not … Continue Reading Dune (2021) November 7th, 2021
Delayed twice between its originals release date in April 2020 and its October 11th 2021 theatrical debut, Antlers kept me wanting more… if more was just to have the chance … Continue Reading Antlers (2021) October 30th, 2021
Peter Jackson might be New Zealand’s patron saint of cinema but he isn’t the only game in town. Nowadays everyone’s talking about Waititi, Clement, and Darby but if you look … Continue Reading Black Sheep (2006) October 29th, 2021
*SPOILERS* In Terror Night (AKA Bloody Movie) a group of friends explore a abandoned Los Angeles mansion owned by the estate of Lance Hayward, a famous film star from the … Continue Reading Terror Night (1987) October 26th, 2021
Two years after I concocted the wholly original idea of watching both House and House back to back my dream became a reality, and turned into a nightmare! Nah, it … Continue Reading House (1985) October 26th, 2021
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