This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The first time I sat down alone and experienced Logan, a year late and a little afraid of what I'd find, I walked away sad and defeated, as someone who cares about and finds relevance and meaning in these characters. I wrestled with this story. What was accomplished by Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, if this is how their story ends with Logan? Where is hope?
Logan: "Where we're going, 'Eden...' It doesn't exist. The nurse got it from…
Star Wars is one of the most complete and influential films yet made. Its success could hardly be understated in its revival and modernizing of ancient, neglected myth and legend, which were written off by society, "outdated", by that dark point in world history. George Lucas took the best elements of so many of the great classic stories in both Eastern and Western culture, especially through the lens of Joseph Cambell's Hero's Journey, and used psychological and mythological archetypes, along…
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It's no real spoiler to acknowledge two partial weaknesses in the film: the execution of Ian Holm's return, and a repeated line. The android…
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There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China.
The Berlin Wall comes down, and the Soviet Union dissolves... in space.
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Whereas Frontier is a serious story that loves to undermine itself, Country is a serious story that knows how…
An informative one-man show, and while clearly much less a film than a stageplay, one fans of Lewis might appreciate seeing at least once. The scene never changes much, but it's a good performance, seemingly in Lewis's own words much of the time. The Most Reluctant Convert gives the audience a great sense that they really are coming to understand the mind of one of the most influential theistic artists and apologists of the 20th century, as he goes from…
