Ready Player One (2018)
“I never felt at home in the real world.” Like an 80’s child chomping on countless pieces of Fruit-Stripe flavored gum during a great daydream, Ready Player One is a film studies […]
Category Archives: Adventure
Tomb Raider (2018)
“There’s a very big difference between myth and reality.” The newly rebooted Tomb Raider seems comfortable being the kind of perfectly forgettable second feature on a hot Summer night’s drive-in theater excursion. […]
Annihilation (2018)
“It’s not easy to move on.” Sometimes you just have to let the dust of things settle. To resonate, to form scar tissue, to further rationalize with the wisdom and […]
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
“You certainly don’t understand the importance of balance.” I’ll say this for A Wrinkle in Time – the film is utterly fearless. And still, like the bullied kid at the summer watering […]
Black Panther (2018)
“It’s hard for a good man to be King.” While terribly timely and invaluably important for modern moviegoers, not least of which are those whose African culture is finally being […]
Hostiles (2017)
“You have no idea what it does to a man.” More serious than an old spaghetti Western and more grounded than one of the many revisionist takes on this al […]
Paddington 2 (2018)
“If we look after this bear, I have a feeling he’ll go far.” In 2015’s Paddington, as well as in this year’s sumptuous, somehow even sweeter sequel, the titular little bear draped […]
Ferdinand (2017)
“Where do you think the word bull comes from? It ain’t from chicken.” In a year that’s featured no animated film I’ve absolutely loved – Lego Batman was probably my favorite, followed […]
The Shape of Water (2017)
“If I told you about her, what would I say? I wonder.” Watching a Guillermo del Toro film can be an exhaustive, drowning, practically purgative process. It’s easy to […]
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
“A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind.” Nobody likes a know-it-all or a smart ass. That is unless you yourself are one. […]
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