There’s a surreal charm and also a pleasing divergence within WandaVision. Sure, the show starts with the familiar Marvel Studios logo reveal we’ve become used to with every Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, but then we’re given something that isn’t as common for this franchise. We’re given a sitcom. No framing Continue Reading
The Best Movies of 2020
While much of the world spent 2020 out of the movie theaters, this was not an awful year in terms of quality films. It wasn’t a light year either despite theaters shutting down in March and struggling to reopen in the second half of the year. I’ve seen about as Continue Reading
“Wonder Woman 1984” Review
2017’s Wonder Woman featured the Amazon warrior of Diana Prince trying to prove that humanity is worth saving from the wrath of warring gods. The follow-up film finds the hero, once more reprised by Gal Gadot, trying to find the good in humanity warring against itself. Though the film chooses Continue Reading
“Soul” Review
I have severely mixed feelings about Soul taking such a light yet abstract take on existentialism. At its heart, yes, it’s a film more about inspiration and the importance of what one does with their life. The way the picture approaches such high-concepts of both birth and death are handled Continue Reading
“Synchronic” Review
The sci-fi mystery of Synchronic starts off fairly scientific but quickly veers off into wilder territory. The initial explanation for its fantastical appeal of time-travel drugs is that a pill has been invented which alters our perception of time so we experience different eras. By the time we get a Continue Reading
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” Review
Patton Oswalt made a joke about why he didn’t make his most recent stand-up routine about the Trump administration. He compared the administration to a scene of a truck full of monkeys high on PCP crashing into a truck full of dirty diapers. To make a bit about such immense Continue Reading
“The War with Grandpa” Review
I never thought I would ever write something like this but I wish this were a sequel to Robert De Niro’s other abysmal comedy Dirty Grandpa. That forgettable 2016 comedy was horrifically bad but on a surface level of poor choices in funny antics. I was not won over by Continue Reading
“On the Rocks” Review
Bill Murray has such an enduring nature that even when he’s playing the antagonist it’s hard not to dig on his appeal. Director Sophia Coppola takes advantage of this by posing him in On the Rocks as a believable misanthrope. He seems charming when around his grandkids but get in Continue Reading
“Tenet” Review
Christopher Nolan’s grand ideas for mind-bending action are certainly unparalleled. Tenet is undoubtedly his most elaborate, playing with time and its inversion to stage the most trippy and tense of sequences, designed to distort and excite. Nolan’s ambition, however, has trumped the rest of his filmmaking, less concerned with a Continue Reading
“Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story” Review
Among Nickelodeon’s first foray into their original cartoons, Ren & Stimpy was by far the most influential. Appealing to kids and adults, the slapstick surrealness of a short-fused dog and a stupid cat revolutionized the industry, paving the way for the strange success of Spongebob Squarepants. There is, sadly, a Continue Reading