I loved the themes and plot of season 2 but I wish they'd played it straight narratively instead of trying to one-up the time-hopping format.
I loved the themes and plot of season 2 but I wish they'd played it straight narratively instead of trying to one-up the time-hopping format.
Look, we're all on edge these days. Lord knows I am. But I think you're missing the forest for the trees here.
I was largely underwhelmed by most of Wonder Woman, but when she (seemingly) defeated her enemy and the war didn’t stop, and she was forced to rekon with the idea that humankind’s capacity for violence wasn’t tied to sinister supernatural forces, I was genuinely impressed. It was such a stark repudiation of the hero’s…
If you’re asking about frontal nudity... yes there was.
We saw Coon in a production of “Bug,” written by (checks notes) Tracy Letts, at Steppenwolf last week.
If this franchise has hinged on nothing else, it's been its unwavering dedication to realism and strict continuity!
That's a halfway decent film festival
Every DECU filmmaker should send Zack Snyder a giant Christmas gift every year for making movies that were so incredibly bad that all of the other middling entries in the franchise have seemed pleasantly enjoyable by comparison.
When he gave a speech after getting an honorary Oscar, he described himself as a hands-off director, someone who saw his job as assembling the right people for the project, pointing them in the right direction, and trying to stay the hell out of the way.
I’d love it if studios would make more movies that remind us of films we love instead of trying to directly reference them. Remaking/rebooting only reminds audiences of how much better the original was without giving them anything new.
About 20 years ago, a friend scored us tickets to the pre-Opening gala of the Chicago Auto Show: free food and drink while mingling with well-dressed snobs among shiny concept cars. I’m not even a “car” guy, but it was tons of fun and I was very excited. I put on my best (read: only) suit and waited for him to pick me…
Keep writing about movies, Breihan. We'll keep reading.
See also: Straight Outa Compton, where the two most independently successful members of NWA (one of whom is played by his actual son) are seen as brilliant and cool-as-hell rabble-rouser poets, while Eazy comes off as spoiled and easily duped by The Man. Oh yeah, and the rest of the group is barely granted cameos.
Well into the 2010's, Yankee Stadium wasn't just singing God Bless America in the 7th inning. They were stringing rope down the end of each aisle so people couldn't avoid it by heading into the concourse. It was treated more solemnly than the national anthem.
“in situations where food was plentiful, they may have used their sensitive snouts to eat the more nutritious parts of their prey selectively,”
There’s a small corner of the internet dedicated to “modern Seinfeld,” where people pitch episode ideas based on today’s topics: Kramer accidentally becomes a Twitch streamer, Elaine worries about what the bottom half of a cute barista’s face looks like under his covid mask, etc etc. It’s kind of fun, because the…
Hello, time traveler from 2008! Clearly you are woozy from the makeshift apparatus which has transported you thirteen years into the future. Please, have a seat. Drink some o.j. Allow me to explain a few things to you.
Dump them both.
She might’ve gotten the job solo if she’d worn something else.