No One Will Save You (2023)
“I’m sorry.” In film and in everyday life, I believe there’s a universally equal power found in brevity. To tell a story concisely is to communicate it clearly, to really […]
Category Archives: Science Fiction
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nope (2022)
“It was a spectacle. People are just obsessed.” Nope isn’t a film directly about religion, but ultimately is one about faith and belief, and it begins with an Old Testament quote […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Quiet Place Part II
“There’s nothing left.” At the end of the first film back in 2018, audiences were left dipped and drenched in the limitless love of a mother for her children. And […]
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