Tag: review
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
Michelle Yeoh and Key He Quan star in Everything Everywhere All At Once; a wild film that will be among the top movies of 2022. What the hell did I just see? Was that a comedy? An adventure movie? A sci-fi film? A drama? Like the title says, it was everything, everywhere — all at…
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In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through 80s Sci-fi Cinema
In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through 80s Sci-fi Cinema is a five-hour documentary that explores the rich history of science fiction and its heyday. Science Fiction can run from the sublime, like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) or Silent Running (1972), or it can fall into the B-level category of the likes of The…
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Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza is the new film from the master Paul Thomas Anderson. It’s as rewarding as it is frustrating, but it definitely begs repeat viewings. In Licorice Pizza, Gary Valentine is a 15-year old child actor, running around the San Fernando Valley in LA in 1973. He meets Alana Kane, a woman in her mid-to-late-20s,…
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Saul at Night
We take a look Cory Santilli’s 2019 film, Saul at Night, where a man named Saul lives in a dystopian society that revolves around sleep. Covid vaccines. Voting suppression. Conspiracy theories. In all of these, and more, there is a contingent of people who believe that the government is trying to control our lives. Of…
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No Time to Die – 4K Ultra HD Blu ray Review
No Time to Die was a stellar final entry into the Daniel Craig era Bond canon. We look at the 4K Ultra HD Blu ray! Dashing Daniel Craig drove off into the sunset at the end of the underwhelming Spectre, leaving audiences with the impression that his time as the notorious 007 James Bond had…
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Spider-man: No Way Home
With Spider-man: No Way Home, Jon Watts, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and company finish out their MCU trilogy. It’s a fun movie with a frustrating concept. Note: This review contains spoilers for not only Spider-man, but also Ghostbusters: Afterlife. If there was any doubt we’re in the age of intellectual property (IP) and franchise filmmaking, Spider-man:…
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C’mon C’mon
Mike Mills’ new film, C’mon C’mon, tells the story of an uncle and his nephew. It’s a powerful but playful meditation on childhood and more. I sometimes wonder what my eight-year-old son will remember about these times. Not just Covid and the world he’s growing up in, but our family moments — his life at…
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Ghostbusters franchise is back with Ghostbusters: Afterlife. It’s a passing of the torch movie that has a lot of fun and some emotional surprises. One of Jason Reitman’s earliest memories of the movies was being on set for the making of 1984’s Ghostbusters, directed by his father, Ivan Reitman. His young mind was set…
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Dune
We’ve waited long and hard for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Does it stack up to the book and the previous versions of this dense sci-fi property? I’m going to try and give you a succinct review of Dune, a property that doesn’t play nice with brevity or clarity. So, buckle up and let’s fold space together.…
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No Time to Die
Daniel Craig hands in his last assignment as this iteration of James Bond in No Time to Die, the long-delayed film from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Hard to believe it’s been about 15 years since the internet made a big messy stink about James Blonde. That is to say, when keyboard warriors went nuts over the…