Everybody's Got A Movie Blind Spot!
Mike Flannigan's Doctor Sleep takes on a tough task, trying to be a sequel to both a book and a movie, neither of which are much like the other. He has taken this task on before, adapting a gothic novel of 1959 into Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House with resounding success. That series was... Continue Reading →
THIS FILM IS BASED ON AN ACTUAL LIE! The Farewell tells the story of Billi, an American raised Chinese girl and her family who finds out her grandmother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In a controversial to American audiences but totally within culture for a Chinese family, they decide NOT to tell the grandmother... Continue Reading →
Sonic, the little blue hedgehog from a 30 year old video game finally gets his own movie. Well, a live action film. Sonic has enjoyed years of games and an animated series that I really never watched as a child, because the other video game properties that had been turned into cartoon shows sucked. I... Continue Reading →
Before I even begin the movies new name is Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey rather than the extremely stupid title, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, which I will never understand how that title got the green light, especially in this day and age in Hollywood. Regardless of what the... Continue Reading →
"Fuck you, it's January!" - Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman of Redlettermedia. This is a reference to the idea that movie studios dump their garbage in earliest and least attended month of the year, January. However, not everything that lands in this month is total trash, or maybe my expectations are so low that some... Continue Reading →
So you're a popular teen girl in school and the one thing that is holding you back from being even more popular is having sex. So you finally do it, without protection, and end up pregnant, the next day! How is it possible to be what looks like nine months pregnant the next day? Well,... Continue Reading →
Metallic sounds are a prominent feature in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Rattling, clanking, clanging, and drilling sounds fill the soundtrack from almost beginning to end. The message coming from a social realism perspective seems clear, these are the daily sounds that fill the ears of the working class. The working class... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-w6MbK_eZA The film follows our four characters around Mexico City, set in 1999 during a massive student protest. The protest are just a backdrop, although the main characters are protesting the protest, or rather procrastinating their inevitable adulthood. They are not motivated to go to school and protest or motivated to do much at all.... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wM1FSTIm0 The Bright Way or Radiant Path or Tanya In both Circus and Tanya, a clear route to perfect Soviethood is laid out for our protagonists. Both of these films were directed by Grigori Alexandrov and feel very similar, however, he takes two different approaches to telling the story. How does one go from just... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIu7_IiCLY Watch the film here! Like the jazz music that fills the soundtrack, John Cassavetes film Shadows was an improvisation. (At least it claims so at the end of the film with a title card.) It is a talented group of people, thrown together for a purpose, the purpose of creating something that is... Continue Reading →
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