The 2023 Academy Awards: Thoughts and Predictions
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: The Oscars love a comeback story, and I’m not sure there’s one more indicative of the Academy’s push for more racial inclusion than Ke […]
Category Archives: Adventure
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
“Every rejection, every disappointment, has led you here. To this moment. Don’t let anything distract you from it.” The family laundry business is no longer profitable in Everything Everywhere All […]
Slumberland (2022)
“You’re just a figment of my imagination.” Full of inventive adventures, fueled by classic bedtime stories, and packing a fresh way of presenting the sleepy material in a new and […]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
“Your brother is with the ancestors.” Intimate and epic. Bold, colorful, otherworldly, built with great scale and by a collective of inspired eyes. This flawed yet grieving film is rich […]
Dune (2021)
“Dreams are messages from the deep.” Dense but never dull, careful but never too cautious either, and every bit the sci-fi epic that it paints itself to be, Dune is a […]
The Suicide Squad (2021)
“Nothing like a bloodbath to start the day.” Funny until it becomes crass and gross and vulgar, and action-packed to the point of being overloaded with bloods and guts in […]
Vacation Friends (2021)
“How does this keep happening?” Vacation Friends is the latest in a long line of comedies where everything that can go wrong will go wrong, until it all ultimately goes right. […]
F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
“This is who we are.” Not since I was in the 4th grade – back when 2001’s The Fast and the Furious served as the inaugural linchpin to this now […]
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
“You can’t be great without putting in work.” Overlong, overblown, and emblematic of what can go wrong when a studio so obviously sees its big budget picture as a product […]
Black Widow (2021)
“Where are we going?” Mid-tier Marvel with a pronounced highlight on the power of makeshift family, Black Widow is both a semi-salutary sendoff to a character whose obituary has already been […]
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