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
Welcome to the first installment of the 8s! If you’ve listened to the podcast, then you know that I am taking the year to watch films from years that end in 8. In the coming months, I will be going back and updating my 2008 lineup (the 1998 lineup was done pretty recently so it’s not
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