Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
As someone who doesn’t really like musicals, this was a fantastic movie. Ariana Grande was such a good comedy relief and played Glinda (Galinda?) really well. Does it look like an MCU movie? At points but the musical numbers take away from the dare-I-say bland CGI. Cynthia Erivo really made me feel for Elphaba’s struggles and made me tear up at some points. Defying Gravity really did one on me.
Dark Skies is, to keep it simple, a well-crafted sci-fi movie that is as suspenseful as it is psychologically exhausting. In the same vein is Signs, this is a movie that doesn’t need to show its antagonist until necessary and I think it does a great job in building the tension of the final reveal surprisingly well.
Some of my favorite horror and suspense media (see It Follows and The Haunting of Hill House) avoid relying on jump scares. Instead, they…
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World—what a movie. Unbelievable! You’ve got Scott, just a regular guy, but he’s taking on SEVEN evil exes. SEVEN! One’s a vegan with superpowers—what’s that about? Crazy! And he’s doing it all for this girl, Ramona Flowers, with the weird hair, always changing it—very suspicious, folks.
Now, I wouldn’t waste time fighting these losers. I’d make a deal, we’d win fast. But Scott? He’s a fighter. Takes them down one by one—real toughness, real leadership. The…