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Poor Things (2024) is avant garde, absurd, and narratively worthless. This film occupies the genres of comedy, drama and sci-fi; all of which, at face value, make this film sound better than it is.
Poor Things pursues with reckless abandon to become a tongue in cheek tale of silly and exceedingly raunchy proportions. This objective however, I do not believe it entirely accomplishes. Nonetheless, too say there are an absurdity of sex scenes would be unjust as this remark would…
Categorizing the 2023 film You People as anything else before a comedy is a gross injustice. Written, produced and starring Jonah Hill, this film also features comedy legends Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. You People majorly centers it’s sense of humor around black vs white culture, mixing in hip-hop references and social commentary along the way.
With You People, Jonah Hill accomplishes a successful modern comedy that tells it like it is and bravely calls out the hypocrisy in modern race relations.
Embarking on the dangerous journey of creating an engaging prequel to its successful first installment; The King’s Man, has somehow kept its failure away from public knowledge. Somehow, having heard virtually nothing about it since it’s release, I thought The King’s Man had a interesting premise and a lot of playing room to be a massive triumph. Unfortunately, I was proven wrong by it’s dragging story line and it’s utterly uninteresting attempts to rewrite history.
Much like the sequel to Kingsman: Secret Service that shall not be named, this prequel also fails to reach the heights established by the first installment.
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace accomplishes the most paramount task in the Star Wars cinematic universe as we know it. This movie accomplished the difficult task of initiating the massive amount of world building necessary for all Star Wars media that followed. This initial entry in the prequel trilogy expanded the cinematic even more greatly from what was already a large universe established in the original trilogy. For this reason, along with a quality of lightsaber combat…
