The key ingredient in a cinematic epic, is weight. In a true massive epic, the likes of Laurence of Arabia, The Lord of the Rings, Malcolm X, The Longest Day, we have to feel that the events are witnessing are of great importance, with implications that will have massive ramifications for generations. An attempted that either undersells the importance and feels false, (Midway) or oversells it (Exodus: Gods and Kings) and feels silly, will not succeed.
Denis Villeneuve and his…
The Thing is John Carpenter's Masterpiece. He has other movies that are scarier, cooler or smarter, but The Thing is his magnum opus. This is a movie that John Carpenter made that nobody else could've. His vision is pure and visceral and utterly bleak. Every shot, every scene is orchestrated for maximum impact. Even people without any love for horror get sucked into his apocalyptic vision. It's brilliant and despite many attempts, nobody else has come close to replicating the feel of this film.
White supremacy is a fucking cancer that infects this nation, and we need to cut it out. I have always believed that the power of federal government should be used to crack down on these domestic terrorists, because progress in America has only come when it does. When the federal government enforces civil rights, voting rights, and prosecutes hate crimes and insurrection, these movements fall apart.
The failure of Merrick Garland and the justice department to full pursue the criminals…
There are many people out there who are more qualified to speak about why this movie fails the communities it seeks to serve. There's ample writing about it, and trans people and Mexican filmmakers have said plenty about why the social aspects of this film do not work. I don't need to add to that, and I won't. I'll just say I agree with most of the criticism.
What I will say, is that I was just really not into…
Few films from the past thirty years have been so aggressively analyzed, deconstructed, memed on, and essayed about. There is so much baggage that goes into rewatching Se7en for the umpteenth time, that somehow all disappears when you watch it in IMAX. When those opening credits hit, it was like a transcended to another plane, and I was seeing the film for the very first time again.
I was shocked, I was appalled, twisting in my seat. Every death, every…
Lean and mean, this killing machine delivers all the holiday themed gore you could ask for. I'm not much of an Eli Roth aficionado, but I'm glad to say that I enjoyed his take on the holiday slasher. Thanksgiving leans hard into the gore and also has some pretty wicked jokes, but overall the tone leans towards fun. It's not actively scary but the kill scenes are decently suspenseful. There's some pretty gruesome material here, and I wouldn't suggest it…
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