Why does the Lucasfilm logo keep changing in the ‘Star Wars’ films?
Seriously, what’s the point?
‘The First Purge’ Makes the Entire Series Less Interesting in Retrospect
For the fourth time in a row, a Purge movie has fallen severely short of its potential.
Why Didn’t That Big ‘Solo’ Reveal Get the Reaction it Was Going For?
There’s a scene in the movie that is clearly intended to get a big audience reaction, but from my experience, it didn’t. Why not?
Let’s Talk About That ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Scene. You Know the One.
The ending of Avengers: Infinity War is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Let’s Talk About That Stupid Whiteboard in ‘A Quiet Place’
*This post will contain spoilers for A Quiet Place* The premise of A Quiet Place sounds like something a screenwriting professor would come up with as a way of explaining the principle of “show, don’t tell.” If you want audiences to understand how the world of your film works, the teacher would say, you shouldn’t have a…
The Problem With the Ending of ‘Ready Player One’
Is Ready Player One a dark story about a society so obsessed with wallowing in nostalgia and wasting time on an online game that it has no issue letting the real world crumble? Or is it a loving ode to geekdom and a celebration of how nostalgia and online worlds can bring people together and serve as a…
Can Somebody Please Explain How this Part of ‘Unsane’ Makes Any Sense?
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is one of those movies that completely enraptures you during its running time, only to leave you spending the rest of the night poking holes in the plot and realizing that none of it seems to make that much sense. Looking back on the film — which I really enjoyed, by the way —…
The Two Biggest Problems I Had With ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’
I went into Kingsman: The Golden Circle with incredibly low expectations thanks to the critical thrashing it received, but I ended up having a fun time at the theater. I honestly don’t see how it’s that much of a drop from the first one – well, except for two things about it that really bothered me. *WARNING:…
