Tag: Comedy
Good Boys is an Irreverent but Sweet Nostalgic Trip Back to Childhood and Good Comedy
As we are inundated with bills to pay, crumbling politics, and more responsibilities than we sometimes want to bear, all of have moments where we wish we could just be kids again. The simplicity of life and innocence…
Read More »Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, and Career Transitions
The average person innately fears the unknown. The familiar offers results we understand and know how to navigate in order to experience minimal pain and/or inconvenience. Change involves risk and uncertainty, not knowing where we may end up…
Read More »Repetition Just Makes You Booksmart
Greater diversity in film has been an issue that has only gained momentum over the past few years and Booksmart is the latest battlefront playing in cinemas throughout the country. The film is the coming of age tale…
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 »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 »In Thoroughly Examining Our Political Past, Vice Provides a Peek at America’s Future
“You chose me, and I did what you asked.” Vice is a retelling of the political rise of former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), from his Wyoming roots with wife Lynne Cheney (Amy…
Read More »The Favourite Explores The Nexus of Power, Sex, and Love
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** The Favourite finds us in 18th century England during a time of war with the French. Leading England at this time is Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), a sick and impressionable queen lacking self confidence,…
Read More »Can You Ever Forgive Me? Explores The Human Need for Recognition and Acknowledgement
Can You Ever Forgive Me? follows the life of biographer to the stars Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) as she suffers through a career downturn, no longer able to secure publishing for her work in a changing literary landscape….
Read More »Crazy Rich Asians Critiques Image Consciousness While Expanding the Wonder of Film to a Wider Audience
In Crazy Rich Asians, Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is set to fly to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) to attend his best friend’s wedding, and finally meet his family. On their way from New York to…
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The Art of Self-Defense’s Examination of Loneliness, Hypermasculinity, and Misogyny Couldn’t Be More Timely
As the United States deals with yet more mass shootings, many people are struggling to understand what would drive a person to commit such atrocities. While white supremacist leanings is debated as the motivating ideology, there is also…
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