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 […]
Tag Archives: Science Fiction
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 […]
Marjorie Prime (2017)
“I don’t know what’s right anymore.” Marjorie Prime is the kind of story necessary of being wrestled and contemplated with, as well as a difficult film that’s every bit as powerful […]
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 […]
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
“We started this together, may as well end it that way too.” After three films, 6+ hours of screen time, and a trio of blandly written books, I couldn’t help […]
Downsizing (2017)
“What won’t they think of next?” For roughly 45 minutes or so – approximately 1/3 of the film’s increasingly tiresome duration – Downsizing is all aces. It’s intelligent, witty, and the art […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
“Why are you here?” While a verifiable hit with the all-time biggest domestic weekend ever at the box office, J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens – the first entry in this new Star […]
Geostorm (2017)
“You get us a car. I’ll get us a President.” Believe it or not, Geostorm actually starts with a bit of promise. Its preaches to us through an Al Gore inspired An Inconvenient […]
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
“To be born is to have a soul.” I’ve personally found that the great misreadings in critical reviews and deep studies on the themes of Blade Runner 2049 and the original 1982 […]
Flatliners (2017)
“Now’s the point where you say it’s all a joke.” Flatliners essentially is a cinematic version of the childhood game “Ghosts in the Graveyard,” and it deserves to be taken just […]
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