Who is Batman without his technology? Many, not me…today, would say that it makes him completely irrelevant as a character. Others would say that it allows the character to show off his incredible determination and detective skill. Regardless of what approach you think, this is certainly a central thesis that informs the narrative of Batman
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
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.
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