Film Review: Snowpiercer

It has taken me a couple of days to jot down thoughts on Bong Joon-ho‘s film Snowpiercer before typing this review, in part because the film that is such a jolt to the system that you need some time to recover. There’s so much to digest with the movie that you have to let it

Film Review: Test

How does one react when a crisis seems both right next door and worlds away? This is one of the many questions the characters in Chris Mason Johnson‘s film Test, which tackles the AIDS crisis from the POV of a young gay man who is an understudy in a dance company. Rather than just focusing on the harrowing aspects of this era, Test seeks to explore the characters who just happen to be living in a time when this all was possible. In this respect, Test is a wonderful character study and tone poem, that although it doesn’t necessarily succeed in every avenue it hopes to explore, it’s well made enough to be an engaging film.

Film Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2

When I managed to catch the first How to Train Your Dragon film on television I did so with a little bit of nonchalance. I had heard the film was good but it never seemed interesting to me via the marketing or reviews. By the end of that screening though, I fell in love with the characters,

Penny Dreadful Recap: Episode 1.05 “Closer Than Sisters”

We begin with Vanessa (Eva Green) writing a letter to Mina and she is telling her she is writing this as she is recovering from her illness. She tells Mina that she hopes that one day she will answer her letters and she hopes that things will be good between them again, but she knows

Game of Thrones Recap 4.09 “The Watchers on the Wall”

Well Game of Thrones fans, tonight we were treated to an episode that has long been in the making. “The Watchers of the Wall” finally deigned to show us the culmination of the two season long threat of the Wildlings attacking Castle Black. So did the episode live up to the hype? YES. In all

Film Review: Edge of Tomorrow

There are few blockbusters will be presented with the surety that Edge of Tomorrow has. I mean this is a movie with a Groundhog Day plot device, aliens, military intrigue, politics and scifi tropes, it HAS to be self confident and completely in control or the movie would fall apart. Audiences taking in movies should

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