Love, Simon is a breath of fresh air in so many ways. It’s the first major studio film that stars a gay protagonist, its impeccably cast with three queer actors, and perhaps most importantly, is a wonderful film that manages to improve on it’s source material, Simon v. the Homosapien Agenda. The story is about
One of the rare things in movie history is about to happen, a gay film gets a wide release. This weekend sees Love, Simon, based on the book Simon vs. The Homosapiens Agenda, premiere and a lot has been made of the fact that it’s the first major studio release with a gay love story
Sometimes in the world of watching movies you encounter films that just don’t feel like they were made for you. Sadly, one of those movies is A Wrinkle in Time, directed by Ava DuVernay, which for all it’s elements, can’t cohere into anything more than a messy exercise in making a movie.
So I honestly have no idea why I’m doing year in advanced predictions. I have barely recovered from this awards season, the Oscars just aired (yay The Shape of Water and Get Out!), and I truly don’t like thinking about awards potential and stuff until like November. But here we are lol This was kind
Well the Oscars are Sunday, so here are my final Oscar predictions. Three Billboards is winning Best Picture. We have had months to deal with this inevitability, though people are trying to convince us Get Out is gonna pull an upset. What is Get Out going to win in order to do that exactly? Most
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.