Easily one of Lovecraft’s masterpieces, The Color Out of Space has been adapted to the silver screen now for its third time which I find so odd due to the story itself being probably the most difficult to translate in a visual format. Lovecraft is known for his non-descript descriptions, meaning he likes to say that things are “indescribable” or “unknowable” in order to set the reader’s imagination on fire trying to picture what could be so foreign that we…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
About as good as it could be after following the disappointing turn that was The Last Jedi. It was great to see J. J. back in action and while I had several issues with the story and plot at points, they were all due to the course corrections that he had to make in order to make this trilogy any where near to where it could have been had they allowed him to direct the whole lot. There was an…
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Doctor Sleep 2019
Heavy handed, sometimes fun, a lot of times boring. Doctor Sleep reaches out in many directions and actually hits on cool stuff with some of them, but in the end, it never becomes greater than the sum of all its parts. On top of that, the ending throws obnoxious amounts of references at you, crossing its fingers that you’ll take it as deeply meaningful. It’s not, or at least I didn’t feel it. Any movie following such a monolithic classic…
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Jojo Rabbit 2019
JoJo Rabbit is about proximity. Both near and far. How the farther you get from people, the more you exaggerate and mythologize them, but this works both ways. The closer you get, you begin to see more similarities than differences and those false images start breaking down. The subtle way in which JoJo begins to understand this concept is beautiful to behold. It’s not a new idea and it’s been done many times over, but in this context, and at…
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