There's honestly something freeing about the bleak and debauched amoralism of the "Sin City" world and it's one of the reasons I love the graphic novels so much. None of these people are truly decent and there's always sinister subtext lurking beneath even the most outwardly clear-cut narratives. It's something I think this adaptation does a fairly decent job of bringing from the page to the screen. Surprisingly, the spottiest thing about this is the visual landscape — something I…
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Mickey 17 2025
This third English-language effort from Bong Joon-ho kinda feels like a mishmash of his first two and not necessarily in a satisfying way. Piggybacking off "Snowpiercer's" grimy, post-capitalist dystopia and "Okja's" bleak depictions of decaying conservationalism, "Mickey 17" really tries to hammer home a coherent thematic treatise, but it's just kind of not about one thing (if that makes sense)? There are a lot of moving parts here and not everything is particularly well-oiled. That, and if you were expecting…
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Top Gun 1986
80's action cheese done so, so right. Tony Scott's "Top Gun" is as well constructed on a technical level as it is from a pop culture standpoint. So many quotes, moments and images seem almost ready-made for cultural reverberation, it's almost not even fair, but I can't say I'm cynical about it. Like Pete Mitchell himself, the film is so unrelentingly sure of itself that, as an audience member, you kind of just acquiesce to the plucky earnestness of it…
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
Amidst this year of unnecessary remakes, bloated sequels, and pathetic attempts at establishing IP, in comes Quentin Tarantino with a movie so wacky, so audacious, and so out there that you honestly can't help but smile when the credits finally roll. Yes, it's based on true events, but don't be fooled. This is a movie with a whole lot more going on with it than simply retelling certain historical moments. More deliberately paced than most Tarantino flicks, "Once Upon A…
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