This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"There is only one side"
The film opens with an army burning piles of bodies and ends with the same image. One man kills an undrugged slave in a coliseum to the adoration of the crowd and one man rides a sandworm to the adoration of the crowd. The Harkonnens are disgusting psychopaths scheming on a colorless world and we have to root for and support the scrappy rebels, right?
There are no easy answers in the world of Dune…
What a stunning film, absolutely devastating that Parasite blew up so much and this film continues to fly under the radar for most people. The film posits, among many other questions, the question of what makes a good family? And not in a corny found family way like you'd expect, but in a very realistic and grounded way. Is it simply love, or does a good family also need money, intelligence, and ethics in order to work well? Osamu and…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In honor of Dune coming out, here is my review for one of my favorite movies of all time. And I think I can best describe what makes it great by comparing it to another movie I love, the 2014 animated masterpiece, The Lego Movie. Both are films of cogs in the system being sucked into something larger then themselves and discovering that they might be the special chosen one to bring the whole corrupt system down. But whereas Emmet…
This movie is, simply put, the greatest action adventure film of all time. It has everything, from the classic characters, to iconic theme music, incredible set pieces, witty dialogue, and everything in between. Everyone in my family constantly quotes this movie, "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember", "We named the dog Indiana", basically any line Sean Connery has. And this movie is also way more clever than it has any right to be, the dialogue simply…
