"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
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Rise of Skywalker & Cats, but mostly Cats
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’ Movie Review
Joker (2019) is a painfully self-serious film that thinks it says more than it really does.
‘Dark Phoenix’ Review
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
‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ (2019) 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