Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Reflecting on Snow White's significance in the Disney canon, knowing what I know of the back-breaking work that went into it's production, an undertaking unlike any other at the time, spanning years of work and staking the company's entire future on it's success, all part of an endeavour to create something unprecedented, made it a sad affair to see it become the latest remake on the Disney Studios conveyor belt.
It was sadder still to see how the few glimpses…
Willy Wonka meets Midsommar is the mashup for the latest satirical horror forray into the bizarre lifestyles of the rich and the famous, with Ayo Edibiri taking on the Charlie Bucket role of Ariel Ecton, an aspiring author/journalist unexpectedly invited, alongside more established and successful media personalities, to a listening party at a recluse musical superstar's remote estate. Eerie cult vibes ensue as the guests start to disappear and the attendants assigned to Ariel and company become increasingly overbearing and…
I don't often like to contribute to the "we don't get these kinds of mid-budget buddy hijinks comedies anymore" conversation because it feels like an overexaggeration. But I checked. I haven't seen one in a year and a half. I'm sure there's a dozen a month released on Netflix, streaming's pretty much cornered the market on comedies, presumably because audiences are constantly bombarded with the implication that nothing less than a blockbuster of epic proportion merits an excursion to the…
One of the trailers that preceded The Monkey was for the newest Final Destination. The first in fourteen years. I had to feel bad for that, making a comeback in the year that another film aped their gimmick. The accidental deaths in The Monkey are nowhere near as elaborate as those in the FD franchise, but it also exposes that that's all they really had going for them, the domino-effect absurdity. The Monkey, while maybe getting a little repetitive with…