It’s wild to think about but we are exactly 1/3 of the way through a season of television with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. As such a milestone, the show leans into some deeper themes and forces us to reexamine the legacy of one of the MCU’s most popular characters. Episode 2 of The
So I dropped an initial article about my first impressions off the pilot for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but now since it’s out, I wanted to dig into some more specifics that I felt deserved some more thoughts. Can you make a show critiquing the military industrial complex if you also glorify it?
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier flies (I’m sorry) onto screens tomorrow under a lot of hype, thanks to the success of WandaVision. Critics were only sent one episode so I am going to give my general thoughts today and then come back on Friday with some more specific notes. Overall, my initial impression of
Chile, the Academy will always zig when you expect them to zag. The Oscar nominations for this hybrid 2020/2021 year were announced today and they are full of little idiosyncrasies that show the Academy as one of the more fascinating voting bodies. Naturally there’s lots to talk about so lets dig in. The Good Nine
The final 2020 in review piece is here! The Oscar voters have finished voting, so this piece won’t necessarily influence anyone but I do love to do it as an exercise to choose my favorites in the various categories. As I mentioned in my top 10 movies post, this year has had incredible riches and
The longest year ever is wrapping up for me as I drop my final two posts of the year for film. 2020 was about as insane a year to hit the film industry as it has ever seen and yet the movies we were able to see were incredible. No matter if they played on