It is a weird troubling thing I have with the Electric State. This is easily the best-looking Netflix blockbuster I have seen. Unlike many Hollywood blockbusters in recent years that look cheap despite their huge budget. Yet this also felt like the least like an actual movie from the streamer, more than even something compared to Red Notice.
What was Russo brother’s greatest strength as directors on their Marvel films is their greatest weakness when trying to make this a…
Mickey 17 is easily Bong’s biggest film he has made yet at a $118 million budget. Although this is the first time making a big-scale studio film, it thankfully doesn’t feel like it other than the scope, scale and the amazing quality in the vfx and production.
I am very happy to call this the full “Bong Joon Ho” experience. Despite this is an adaptation from a novel by Edward Ashton, if you put all of Bong’s past sci fi…
Civil War wasn't a film as convoluted in its politics as I expected about a unity between California and Texas waging war against the White House.
Much like the genre elements in Alex Garland's past storylines, Civil War does the same with the politics by treating it ambiguous. Where the trailers seem like he is leaning in messaging one way or the other, it is more of a setting then any intention. The idea of war in this is people…
Rewatching this you realize how influential Alfonso Cuaron’s bleak dystopia drama has been on the genre as much as Blade Runner and Star Wars. The DNA of the more recent dystopic masterpieces in media like Logan and The Last of Us game all stem from how Cuaron explores this future world.
In the year 2027 (which makes this more scary that we are closer to that year in 2024), 18 years of global infertility has stripped the world of any…
