Rocketman: Reginald Dwight, Elton John, and the Tale of the Sad Clown
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Read More »John Wick 3: Parabellum is Chock Full of the Action We’ve Come to Love with Added Substance
John Wick 3: Parabellum begins immediately after the ending of John Wick 2 which saw the film franchise’s namesake guns down Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), a member of the mysterious High Table, the shadowy council that oversees the…
Read More »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…
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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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