So let me preface this with two statements. First off, I have a list of 16 films I need to rewatch and write reviews for, and this is one of them so I am glad to finally start on that backlog. Second, nuclear war and nuclear war theory is the study of attempting to make reason out of that which is inherently unreasonable.
Now onto the review.
I think that Oppenheimer is a modern masterpiece. It defies EVERY expectation of…
Honestly I don't understand why this film is considered by some to be one of the better Mission Impossible films. It leans harder into the tropes of the genre, and feels much more like a generic action film than MI or MI2 did. I'd go further and say this seems like MI2 with all of its excesses and none of its finer qualities. Tom Cruise still delivers a great performance as does the supporting cast, but I feel like the…
This is my first review in a minute, and it will mark a departure from my previous format which I have found too taxing, and too rigid for my own tastes. I'm probably going to start writing shorter reviewers that are more to the point and less "essay" like from here on out.
Well where to start, this is a movie that has been on my hitlist for a minute as I've recently been expanding my musical horizons into the…
This isn't the perfect film, but its darned close and its in my humble opinion the high point of the Indiana Jones series thus far. So much so that nearly everyone whom I've discussed the topic with wishes they had left the series here, with Indy and the crew riding off into the sunset (although I hardly think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is as bad as most people would want you to think it is)
So as far as…
