Watch, then read, unless you don't care about SPOILERS! I love to discuss character and story, which is often difficult to do without touching on specific scenes or a movie's ending.
🎵 We! We’re flying recklessly tonight! Go on and take me higher. You can be my Firestarter, ohhh 🎵 – Samantha Jade. Ah, with Doctor Sleep and Pet Sematary (to name a few) coming out in recent years, I’ve loved … Continued
🎵 That’s word, we Prey! Prey! Prey! We got to Prey just to make it today! 🎵 – MC Hammer, sort’ve. Nah, congratulations to this movie, for coming up with a catchy companion title to Predator. Because what’s the opposite … Continued
This is why cinemas need to continue to exist for an adult audience. Not necessarily for compact multi-manufactured franchise movies, but for movies like this, where I go in not knowing what to expect, but fueled with anticipation simply over … Continued
Let me round out the kids’ movies I missed at the start of the year with Sing 2. I think the first Sing movie was the last movie I saw in 2016 and I loved it so much, that it … Continued
Why-oh-why isn’t the sixties The Addams Family series on any streaming services?! I literally have hundreds of other options, and I’m still not satisfied. If The Addams Family series was on a streaming service that I owned, it would be … Continued
12-year-old Emily Elizabeth Howard (Darby Camp) has just moved to a posh school in New York City where she is bullied for receiving a scholarship. If only she had one friend, a companion of sorts, then everything would be better. … Continued
As an astute patron of the social reviewing platform Letterboxd puts it, ‘just watch the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and then stop.’ I know this to be good advice, because I’ve spent the past few months trudging my way through … Continued
Off to the cinema for another Marvel movie we go. I’ve already seen YouTube thumbnails labelling Thor: Love and Thunder ‘hot garbage’ and ‘a bad joke’ though, so this doesn’t bode well. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if I hated this … Continued
I feel the need… the need for speed! Doesn’t Quinten Tarantino believe the first Top Gun movie is an allegory for being gay? Could that make Top Gun: Maverick a thematic tale for being trans? There’s only one way to … Continued
Rewatching Doctor Strange the other night, I think I was suffering from a little bit of comic-book fatigue when it first came out in 2016, because it’s a much better movie than I remember. I know I was suffering from … Continued