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Note: This was written in 2018. Jesus this was two years ago already? Anyways, point is I wrote this not long after Venom came out. I still stand by like, all of this though, except the bit at the end where I say Marvel needs to keep making Spider-Man movies. This was a pre-Spider-Verse time … Continue reading Venom (2018) dir. Ruben Fleischer Is the Only Movie with Gay Characters
"My life isn't a tragedy: it's a comedy." I started thinking about this line a bit more recently after my friend Evan said we're not supposed to take Joker seriously. I brushed him off, telling him that Todd Phillips took the film painfully seriously in interviews. I stood my ground externally, but internally, a seed … Continue reading A Joker Hypothesis
December 2018 was a great time for me. Bumblebee and Into the Spider-Verse came out, catering to me specifically. I love both movies to death and have seen them a million times. The monkey's paw really curled this time folks. December 2019 was an evil, evil time for big movies. Both Star Wars and Cats … Continue reading Rise of Skywalker & Cats, but mostly Cats
Joker (2019) is a painfully self-serious film that thinks it says more than it really does.
This review contains spoilers for 'Dark Phoenix' I'm not the biggest X-Men fan in the world. I like some of the movies (namely Logan, Days of Future Past, and First Class), and growing up I occasionally watched X-Men Evolution and Wolverine & the X-Men, but I don't have the same attachment to them that others … Continue reading ‘Dark Phoenix’ Review
So Godzilla: King of the Monsters kind of rules. Like the 2014 film, it uses the structure of a classic Showa (1954's Gojira-1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla) and combines it with modern Hollywood sensibilities. These two things compliment each other extremely well, as the directing styles and acting of modern Hollywood make the human scenes more … Continue reading ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ (2019) Review
This review contains spoilers for The Hustle. So I saw a movie with my mom today. I saw it with her because I'm a good son and it's Mother's Day. The Hustle is a comedy that stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as con artists who con men out of money. The reason they do … Continue reading ‘The Hustle’ (2019) Review
This review contains Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. In the 11 years since Iron Man came out, the MCU has grown in scope and popularity. It started with a man in a suit of armor, and now there's a whole universe of superheroes, supervillains, and everyone in between. It's far from perfect, with a couple of … Continue reading ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Review
Honestly, I was more excited for Detective Pikachu than I was for Avengers: Endgame. Granted, that's partly because of how my opinion on the MCU has fluctuated recently, but it was also because that first Detective Pikachu trailer kind of blew me away. It looked like a really unique and fun approach at Pokémon that … Continue reading ‘Detective Pikachu’ Review
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