When you read a book as weird as Annihilation (and it’s sequels in the Southern Reach trilogy), the impression of the weirdness and messiness stays with you. From the minute the adaptation for this was announced and the knowledge that Alex Garland, who dazzled us with Ex Machina two years ago, meant that I would be in for an experience with this film, whether good or bad. Unfortunately for me, it was more bad than good.
There’s always a challenge when watching movies and attempting to review them where one has to interrogate whether they are judging the movie as it is versus the movie you want it to be. The Ritual has so many elements of other films, a little Blair Witch Project here, a little The Babadook there, that
Black Panther isn’t a movie; it’s a movement. That’s a phrase I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of in the past few days and it will only continue in the ramp up to the debut of the first Black superhero solo film since Blade. It’s a movie that has a ton of pressure on it,
The phrase “I’m shook” might have been first uttered for a completely different reason, but I believe it was brought into the lexicon for a moment, and a film, such as The Cloverfield Paradox. Formerly known as God Particle, the film stars a cavalcade of stars and is under the scifi banner of the Cloverfield
Let me let y’all know right up front that this isn’t going to be a traditional review of the film Maze Runner: The Death Cure for several reasons, the most paramount being that it’s opening weekend has already passed and because I find the film far more interesting as a case of adaptation. I read
Well, the Oscar nominations were announced this morning, with The Shape of Water leading with 13 nominations. Let’s just dig right on in with some analysis! The Good Honestly, for the first time in eons, there really isn’t anything to complain about with these Oscar nominations. Most of the people who bitch about this year’s