Month: April 2019

Avengers: Endgame is the Perfect Ending for Marvel’s Infinity Saga (But Not in the Way You Think)

************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Over the past decade, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has come to define modern blockbuster film-making and dominate pop culture. Their serialized, television episodic style changed the way we view movie franchises and how…

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Under The Silver Lake is a Paranoid Love Letter to Los Angeles and Film Noir

“We crave mystery because there’s none left.” The millennial generation is infamously underpaid, overworked, and lagging behind where their parents were at the same age in terms of life accomplishments and experiences. These conditions provide a recipe ripe…

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High Life is an Examination of the Psychological Effects of Guilt Couched in Sci-Fi

************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Guilt is one of the more devastating emotions that humans can feel, one that can linger and fester over long periods of time and affect every level of our well-being and existence. As any…

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Hotel Mumbai Explores Heroism, Courage, and Terror in a Powerful Yet Nuanced Thriller

Courageousness is a trait that all of us hope to house within ourselves, something that we all profess to utilize when situations arise that call for it. The reality is however, that none of us can truly know…

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Shazam Uses Laughs and Comic Book Spectacle to Impart the Importance of Family

Family can at once be the thing that most grates our nerves and what keeps us afloat during the most trying of times. Our early development and socialization is driven almost exclusively by our families as they are…

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