Y’all getting a short review today, folks.
Offering spectacle but lacking all panache, Furiosa brings nothing to the Mad Max table that hasn’t been done before and better; it’s like getting invited to a cookout, told to bring something to pass around and ending up bringing the chips and hoping nobody realizes you forgot to make a dish.
Furiosa is the origin story of the titular Praetorian, of her capture as a child by the brash,…
Sometimes the greatest revenge is to survive.
Godzilla Minus One reimagines the origin concept creating the titular titan of terror, setting the creature within the framework of a wounded Japan rebuilding itself from the devastation of WWII, but despite such a creative choice lending a heightened sense of pathos to the human aspect of the story, being removed almost 70 years from the original film and its parallels between a fictitious monster and the monster of nuclear devastation…
The only thing they could’ve added that would’ve made this film even more fun would be PandaPool, but beggars can’t be choosers, especially when there’s a Blade cameo.
PandaPool - the species that endangers… YOU!
Maybe it’s the current times we’re living in, but I hated how idiotically reactionary the townsfolk were in here.
Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.
Insert wistful sigh here.
Arguably one of international cinema’s most cherished and important classics of all time, its gravitas and influence only growing larger and stronger every year as more and more cinephiles and audiences fall under its power, The Seven Samurai was the film that undeniably changed me in a cinematic sense, transforming me from an ordinary teen who liked watching movies for pure escapism to someone who can be captivated by…
Life is like a bagel. You can enjoy it plain or garnish it however you see fit; you can take it in bite sized pieces or all at once, and once you’re finished, you can feel full and contented or you can obsess over the hole in the middle, longing for that little bit more you never got to taste. Everything Everywhere All At Once is about life and how we make it, how we wish to push things away…
