What does “Boston Strong” actually mean? Is it a motto? Is it a belief, or a reality? Or is it a well-intentioned myth built to inspire people in a time of fear, sort of like how “Camelot” was made up to inspire people in the face of Kennedy’s...
DISCLAIMER: In the following review, I try to make sense of the film mother! This is a film that is both impossible to spoil, and yet knowing anything feels like a spoiler in and of itself. While I will be incredibly careful about what I say...
What is the point of art? Is its goal to entertain us? To make us think? Remind us how to feel, and how other people are feeling? To push the boundaries of storytelling, whether through live action or animation? Or is it some combination of all...
There’s nothing really “original” or “special” about the first film version of Stephen King’s most famous novel, It. Director Andy Muschietti doesn’t use it as a launchpad for larger themes, like The Shining. There aren’t any major game-changing...
Kyle Mooney is one of the most discomforting comedians in modern history. If you’ve followed his career, from Good Neighbor and Saturday Night Live, you’ll know that he specializes in the super-straight man, where no matter how ridiculous his...
Pulp /’pəlp/ n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper Obviously, the above quote is most famous as the opening line to Pulp...
I’m honestly not sure how to make heads or tails of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. It’s a different kind of filmmaking altogether, and I’m not sure that’s necessarily a good thing. Director Luc Besson likes challenging his audience...
Bong Joon-Ho is what Steven Spielberg and Hayao Miyazaki would be like if they had huge, swinging balls – and you know that they have huge, swinging balls because they’re constantly dangling them in the audience’s face. Subtlety is not something...
There’s really nothing new in Girls Trip. It’s so clichéd that they literally have a scene introducing characters via “Classic [so-and-so], so uptight all the time,” “Classic [such-and-such], overanalyzing everyone.” If you’re looking for...
I get the feeling that Kathryn Bigelow is growing tired with narrative films. Despite setting the bar for action with Point Break, she’s recently been taking on real-life storytelling with a journalistic lens, like the perfect The Hurt Locker...
There are certain films that just seem designed to challenge the viewer. It’s almost like the director wants to make it impossible for the audience to just enjoy themselves. This usually comes out of a good place – the director wants to make the...
The Emoji Movie is perhaps the best case for atheism the screen has ever presented, because what just God would allow this to happen? In the best-case scenario for this film, it is just an eighty-minute commercial for smartphones. That’s the best...
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