Tag: VFX
Ready Player One Impresses with Computerized Visual Effects While Cautioning Against Technological Dependence
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Legendary director Steven Spielberg’s latest film Ready Player One transports us to Columbus, Ohio in the year 2045 where reality has turned dystopian and bleak, while a virtual reality world called OASIS, part video…
Read More »Blade Runner 2049 Remains Faithful to the Original While Making Its Own Mark
“We’re all just looking out for something real.” While conducting his duties of hunting and “retiring” the genetically engineered humanoid workforce known as replicants, Blade Runner K (Ryan Gosling) stumbles upon an old secret that his bosses desperately…
Read More »Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is Frustratingly Close to Perfection
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets introduces us to 28th century special operatives Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) who work together to enforce the law in the glaxy while navigating their complicated feelings for…
Read More »War for the Planet of the Apes Continues Visual Wizardry, Stumbles Overall
Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Following the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his group of mentally evolved apes in what used to be the San Francisco area are in the middle of an armed…
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