Tag: Sci-Fi
Tenet Reveals the Flaws in Christopher Nolan’s Filmmaking Style
Tenet already had many eyes upon its release, being the latest entry from legendary director Christopher Nolan and a big summer blockbuster. But as we are all aware, 2020 has been the year of curveballs and one was…
Read More »Sputnik Uses the Sci-Fi Classics Before It to Examine Human Emotion
Since Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking, legendary sci-film Alien was released in 1979, tales of alien life forms seeking unsuspecting human space explorers to use as living hosts have been ubiquitous in the genre to the point of becoming rote…
Read More »The Old Guard Balances Action, Philosophy, and Morality in One Entertaining Package
We all go about our daily lives with the foreboding knowledge that death comes for us all. When I consider what awaits me at the end of my time here on Earth, all the possibilities evoke fear. Those…
Read More »The Wave Provides a Kaleidoscopic View of Karmic Balance
“What goes around comes around.” “Karma’s a bitch.” Just a couple of quotes that people bandy about in the hopes of motivating people to treat one another with more kindness and consideration. But is there such a thing…
Read More »Speed of Life Examines Love and Letting Go of Painful Pasts
Some say that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. But often times lost love can linger like a storm cloud over a person’s life, impeding their ability to experience…
Read More »The Rise of Skywalker Attempts to Use the Past to Make Us Forget the Past
“Always two there are; a master and an apprentice.” This established rule of the Sith order powered the dark side Force users for millennia until they destroyed both the Jedi order and the New Republic, taking over the…
Read More »Fast Color Examines the Superpower, and Kryptonite, Inherent in Black Motherhood
************************This review contains mild spoilers**************************** “Give this to your mother.” “She came back?” “For you.” From the moment skin-to-skin contact is first established between mother and child, every matriarch hopes to do the best she can to shield…
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 »A Tale of Undying Love and Self-Discovery, with Incredible VFX, Powers Alita into Battle
************************This review contains mild spoilers**************************** Visionary director James Cameron’s name has become synonymous with visual wizardry and innovation and he has once again lent his expertise on pushing the limits of what cinema can look like with Alita: …
Read More »The Endless Ponders the Gift and Curse of Freedom
“Dying, just takes a second. And a shitty life is long.” In The Endless, brothers Aaron (Aaron Moorhead) and Justin (Justin Benson) have escaped a UFO doomsday cult to live on their own in normal society, although struggling to…
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