Comedy has been an outlet for the major issues of the day going all the way back to the 30s. In particular, women in the workplace has always been a subject ripe for satire, thanks to the condescension, harassment, and sexism they face on a...
When I first sat down for The Dead Don’t Die, the “zombie comedy” by legendary arthouse director Jim Jarmusch, I was not expecting much. I’d been lukewarm on Jarmusch’s previous efforts Dead Man and Only Lovers Left Alive (the only Jarmusch films...
Here’s something you may not know about me: I am a massive Godzilla fan. From the age of three, I’ve loved the apathetic city-destroyer who is both humanity’s biggest threat and greatest ally. And as I grew older, and saw the original Gojira, I...
The musical biopic is a complicated genre: oftentimes, these kinds of films put so much faith in the audience’s lazy expectations, they just throw the same clichés into the script over and over: kid’s a natural prodigy, parents don’t...
One of the most common questions posed by dumbasses on the Internet is: “In the modern “woke” age, can you even make a good comedy anymore?” My first response to this imaginary-yet-oh-so-real assh*le is, “Shut the f*ck up.” My second, more...
Arguably the best currently-running action franchise in Hollywood right now is the John Wick series. Originally a gritty neo-noir with a modernistic twist and a devilish flair, the series has both pushed the boundaries of stylistic fight...
Hollywood is cyclical in nature. Every genre has a successful boom, a series of mediocre knock-offs, a death-knell, and an eventual rebirth. It happened to the Western, it happened to the musical, and now, it’s happened to the romantic comedy. A...
Avengers: Endgame is many things. It is an epic. It is science fiction. It is an action/adventure, a war film, a tragedy, a comedy, and a space opera. It is all of these things at the same time. The question is, in the aftermath of the mediocre...
Some time in the past ten years or so, Hollywood realized that all the most mainstream sports were far too well-worn to continuously wring out for cash. In lieu of releasing yet another “inspiring” story about football, baseball, or boxing, they...
I’m honestly a bit lukewarm on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I think what they’re doing is pretty cool in execution, and I’ll admit I have fun when I watch them. However, with the exception of every 8 films or so feeling like a real spectacle...
The bar for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part was unexpectedly high. Due to the enormous success, both commercially and artistically, of the first entry in the series, a litany of spin-offs both great (LEGO Batman) and meh (LEGO Ninjago, which...
I was so looking forward to Serenity when the first trailer came out. As a fan of the film noir genre, and especially the neo-noir subgenre, the promise of a sexy noir thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, written and directed...
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