I’ve seen Star Wars so many times that sometimes my mind glosses over its deeper themes. Like how the story is inherently antifascist. It’s easy to point to Andor as when Star Wars got radical, but all that fighting authoritarianism, the crackdowns on personal freedoms, and what would motivate a bystander to join a rebellion… Continue reading Antifascist Star Wars
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Adapted Enough
Last weekend’s rerelease of The Lord of The Rings highlighted that Fellowship of The Ring first hit theaters twenty-five years ago. Fellowship was released closer to Star Wars than to right now. Beyond making me feel very old, I can’t help but to wonder how long it’ll be until someone else takes a stab at… Continue reading Adapted Enough
Faith Movie
Nearly fourteen years ago, when this blog was young (in fact, it might have been before I even bought the URL), I wrote a post on 'Christian' movies and how most of them were terrible when they really don’t have to be. It’s been over a decade and it feels written by a different person… Continue reading Faith Movie
Projecting
The newest installment in Rian Johnson’s murder mystery series, Wake Up Dead Man, is out this week in a super limited release. Its predecessor, Glass Onion, was, likewise, only in theaters for a week on account of Netflix wanting to get their movie on streaming quick as possible. Unfortunately, Dead Man’s release coincides with Thanksgiving,… Continue reading Projecting
Superhope
Superman feels like an idealistic fantasy born out of a simpler time. A space alien with powers beyond belief grows up on Earth a humble man and chooses to use his powers to help and save humanity instead of conquering or ruling us. Adapting that unbridled optimism for a modern audience outside the bounds of… Continue reading Superhope
Of Ballerina
Ballerina, the new John Wick movie, came out on my birthday and it feels like a movie made just for me. It is, as in the tradition of all the John Wicks, a slick-as-anything action movie with a strong emphasis on cool stunts, staging, and fight choreography. Ballerina also strips away a lot of the… Continue reading Of Ballerina
Unapologetically Itself
One of the reasons I stopped rating movies on those movie-rating sites is because I kinda stopped caring about the difference between a good movie and a good movie. I don’t know if Commando is a good movie, especially if you compare it to contemporary action movies like Die Hard or The Terminator. But Commando… Continue reading Unapologetically Itself
Flavors of Star Wars
The original Star Wars is a weird movie. You’ve got a pair of silly robots bumbling about a desert and a young man finding the charred remains of his caretakers. An old man and a half-robot man fight with laser swords until the old man disappears. A farmboy flying a fighter jet uses space-magic to… Continue reading Flavors of Star Wars
Quick Thoughts On Thunderbolts
So Thunderbolts* is out now and the movie certainly feels like a return to form for the MCU. For one, it’s a proper team-up movie of the sort we haven’t really been getting too much of lately, integrating characters from a bunch of different movies and seeing how they play together. Granted Marvels did team-up… Continue reading Quick Thoughts On Thunderbolts
On Warfare
When I watched Civil War last year, I found myself wondering what a war movie by Alex Garland would be like. The tension he gave to the combat sequences in Civil War bordered on harrowing, mirroring the intensity of, say, Full Metal Jacket or The Hurt Locker. Nestled in there was a deeply cynical opinion… Continue reading On Warfare
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