Month: March 2019

Us Explores the Peril of Hiding Mistakes in an Allegory for Modern America

************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “Once upon a time, there was a girl. The girl has a shadow; the two were connected.” Us is the hotly anticipated follow-up to writer/director Jordan Peele’s paradigm shifting directorial debut Get Out. The…

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Triple Frontier Presents a Story of Greed and Vengence Amidst an Allegory for Modern Warfare

************************This review contains spoilers**************************** In Triple Frontier, former Special Forces operative and current mercenary Santiago “Pope” Garcia (Oscar Issac) becomes disenchanted after a career of service for the United States military and years of attempting to put a…

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With Captain Marvel, Marvel Studios Continues Its Lack of Respect For Its Audience

Captain Marvel features Vers (Brie Larson), a young Kree warrior-hero who, along with her mentor and team leader Yon-Rogg (Jude Law), is in the midst of a years-long intergalactic war between the Kree and the Skrulls. Vers suffers…

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Greta is an Enticing Thriller that Explores Our Growing Loneliness Epidemic

************************This review contains a mild spoiler**************************** “We were meant for love. Not this terrible isolation, Frances.” We are currently living in an era of human history that has connected people around the globe on an unprecedented level. A…

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