The Smondays. That feeling on a Sunday afternoon or evening when it suddenly stops feeling like the weekend and you start thinking about the work or school week ahead. The stresses of projects, meetings, assignments, emails, tasks, all that good stuff come rushing back to the front of your mind. Well, I have just the …
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The Big Lebowski is one of the great cult movies of all time, and still very underrated. It was a box office flop and the critics didn’t seem to like it much better back when it arrived in theaters back in 1998. Since then it has really found it’s audience with the home video audience, …
The Big Lebowski is a Masterpiece, but that’s just like, my opinion, man Read More »
Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame are an unprecedented cinematic masterpiece and the culmination of over 10 years and 22 within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). They are, in my estimation, the single greatest cliffhanger/resolution two part story ever committed to film. There is also a symmetrical nature to the two films, that really allows …
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There is a fantastic weekly episodic science fiction show on television that more people really ought to be watching. That show is Seth Macfarlane’s The Orville. This show is science fiction at its finest, mixing thoughtful and contemplative story lines with it’s own brand of humour. The Orville started kicked off strong with it’s first …
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Mission Impossible Fallout is an exhilarating, relentless, fast paced and action packed ride. This movie proves that against all odds this twenty some year old franchise only gets better as they continue to make them. Fallout may be the crowning achievement of the franchise, though 2011’s Ghost Protocol is right up there and 2015’s Rogue …
Mission Impossible Fallout: The action movie to end all action movies Read More »
The Coen brothers are famous for movies like The Big Lebowski, and to a lesser extent, Burn After Reading, which subvert classic film genre formulas. The set ups for these movies look very much like they are going to follow certain formulas of the genres to which they seem to belong, but then eventually throw …
Intolerable Cruelty: A Romantic Comedy, Coen Brothers Style Read More »
First Man is a very personal, quiet and contemplative movie about Neil Armstrong’s journey through the 1960’s in NASA’s Gemini and Apollo mission, culminating with Armstrong being the first man to set foot on the moon. The 1996 movie Apollo 13 and the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon have previously chronicled NASA’s …
I have a few disclaimers before I begin the review of Bohemian Rhapsody. First, I am a lifelong Queen fan and am of the opinion that Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest front men and performers in the history of music, so you know, keep that in mind. Second, we have to acknowledge the …
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Ridley Scott’s Alien, released in 1979, is one of the great all time science fiction horror films, and it still holds up after almost 40 years. The plot is a fairly straight forward slasher movie, with the titular alien standing in for the crazed murderer, and the spaceship replacing the eerie house/ suburban/ rural setting. …
Ever since they started writing James Bond screenplays in 1999, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been trying to give James Bond a meaningful injury to overcome. They have endeavored to give Bond a meaningful setback that might have Bond and the audience wondering if he is up to the challenge this time around. Their …
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