Hey, so Chris O'Dowd from The IT Crowd and Ray Romano from everything Ray Romano has been in star in an adaptation of the comedic John Travolta crime movie that transforms the premise into a mix of...
2019-01-28 02:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostI've heard so much about these stories. About how groundbreaking they were. About how they forced the industry to reckon with topics like death and alcoholism in unparalleled sequences of ...
2019-01-28 01:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostYou think World War Hulk is going to be about the big guy beating the crap out of Literally Everything, right? So that's what the book gives you. Hulk angry, Hulk stronger than ever before, Hulk--<...
2019-01-12 11:25:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the most uncomfortable monster movie I've ever watched.
That isn't a diss--it's why I recommend Colossal wholeheartedly. The premise of the movie takes two people, and embodies the to...
2019-01-12 10:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis movie chosen by a "Fennelsher" patron.
Okay, I don't wish to alarm anyone, but...this movie is good?
It's good???
In fact, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was so effec...
2019-01-12 09:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostI saw Punch-Drunk Love when I was younger. Three years ago, if Twitter is to be believed.
At the time, I thought it was a good movie!
Inexplicably strange guy finds understanding woman and...
We Need To Talk About Kevin doesn't give a single, flying F*CK about your bewilderment.
A lot of discussion about storytelling goes into the onboarding process. How to do an accelerated openi...
2019-01-02 06:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe National Treasure movies are a strange anomaly. Produced three years apart from each other, they are perhaps the most cohesive sequels of all time--there's a time skip, but they feel like they ...
2019-01-02 04:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostLet me start off by saying - the way they treat Boudica was abrasively, persistently disrespectful, and that alone soured a big part of the campaign for me.
That aside, would you be surprised...
2018-12-28 11:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe more I think about this movie, the more I love it.
The work of the Coens often balances arch or mythic qualities (which can be distancing) with approachable humor and straight up weirdnes...
2018-12-28 10:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe image of the western that I usually have in my head is of the mythic gunslinger, riding into a beleaguered town already having most of what they need to save it. A gun, a lasso...They're self-s...
2018-12-28 10:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, I was impressed with how Hereditary literally weaponized the symbols of grief - the memories, the objects...the little tics and words used by the one you knew - and turned them into engin...
2018-12-28 09:34:27 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't find a way to describe how radical the changes were to the Gears of War formula, until I noticed an audio cue that was missing.
In previous Gears of War games, when a new objective w...
2018-12-21 19:08:43 +0000 UTC View PostCompulsion is an odd thing to judge in a movie. The very nature of the medium says that you're along for the ride, right? You probably want to see what happens next. That ...
2018-12-21 10:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis movie chosen by a "Fennelsher" patron.
The typical film epic structure is a bit of a downer, isn't it?
I'm thinking of the Boogie Nights and Beaches and Terms of Endearmen...
2018-12-21 09:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostYou can't tell the difference between the blood and the sweat any more.
They both shine on Willard's skin as he emerges from the lair of Kurtz. They dazzle in the light like gemstones, and raise the...
2018-12-17 00:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostYou'd think narrative ambiguity would make things easier for you, right?
You just don't say how a story ends.
That isn't true, of course, as I've learned through much pain. If anything it m...
2018-12-16 06:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostI first saw Aliens as part of a library DVD collection with the original movie. Alien blew my fricking mind. I still consider it one of the greatest movies ever made. A tense debut that used ...
2018-12-16 05:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostSpider-Verse reminded me of why I love movies.
I like being in another place, safely detached by a screen, and feeling things. I like taking those emotions and observations back into the world, and ...
2018-12-14 08:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a scene near the end of the movie where Bonnie and Clyde roll into a camp of what seem to be dispossessed Americans. Their gang--or what's left of it--has been shot to bits, left dehydrated an...
2018-12-12 05:51:40 +0000 UTC View PostI remember when the original came out!
It was one of the first metroidvanias I'd ever played. I easily sunk over 30 hours into combing every piece of its map for secrets and upgrades. The two tasks ...
2018-12-09 10:13:06 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, first off: I am aware that this is the equivalent of a live-action cartoon. I am aware that this is a star vehicle for Jim Carrey (and to a lesser degree Cameron Diaz). I am aware that the 90s w...
2018-12-08 07:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostIncredibles 2 made a major aesthetic shift that I don't quite understand yet.
I know the components it's using. Incredibles 2 combines realistic materials and lighting with heavily stylized...
2018-12-08 03:36:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey, so I can't talk about this too much for some reasons I can't go into right now, but Battlefield V was good in ways I wasn't even expecting.
I played BF1, where the series debuted its vignette s...
2018-12-05 01:26:10 +0000 UTC View PostI wonder if this would have been a better movie if it ended 3 minutes earlier.
Boogie Nights takes you on a journey that is honestly disturbing in its efficacy. When it first introduces you to the m...
2018-12-04 08:29:48 +0000 UTC View PostI...kinda love Wild Wild West.
Let me be absolutely clear: it is not a good movie, per se. It is an expensive one, and has some very talented actors on board, but a good movie it does not m...
2018-12-04 07:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostI don't get it.
I don't get how Blade II is not as compelling as the first movie.
Blade II is, by every account, better. Better direction. Better writing. Better visual effects. Better fight s...
2018-12-02 09:09:50 +0000 UTC View Post
When Tim Burton was still a wee animation student at CalArts, he saw the newly-debuted Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A few years later, he had made his first...
2018-12-02 07:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt is fascinating to see the culmination of a director's career before they make a major shift. True Lies combines the personal focus and suspense of Terminator, when James Cameron had Very L...
2018-12-02 06:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostWeird West - a genre that puts the legends and problematic framing of the Wild West through a twisted prism, and sets all equal. We are one before a dry sea of grass and scrub, cosmic horror and haunt...
2018-11-25 20:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post