Author: Garrett Eberhardt
Shadow is the Kind of Inventive, Stylish, but Substantive Film America is Making Less Of
Shadow is a story based on the Three Kingdoms Chinese fable involving two Chinese kingdoms, the Yan and the Pei. The two were formerly at war but are now in the throes of peace following an agreed upon…
Read More »Teen Spirit Explores the Ability of Music to Foster Human Relationships
Music is one of the most unifying forces in the world. It is how an island in the Pacific full of non-English speakers have built one of the richest hip-hop cultures on the planet, despite never having visited…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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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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