One of the hardest losses in the pop-culture sphere during the mayhem of 2020 was the life of Chadwick Boseman. While he was best known for his role as Marvel's King T'Challa, the Black Panther, Boseman had a career filled with great performances. For most people, his best performance pre-Panther was his portrayal of Jackie …
Continue reading Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—Boseman’s Swan Song May Be His Greatest Performance
The last film I got to see in theaters before the initial theater shutdown back in March was Pixar's Onward which hit every mark and instantly became one of my favorite Pixar films. With Pixar's fantastic reputation of creating films that I absolutely adore, I was extremely excited for their second film on the 2020 …
Continue reading Soul—Pixar Never Fails to Delight With the Metaphysical
I think it is a fair assessment to say that 2020 has been hard on everybody. One of of the less-important yet harder parts for me has been the pandemic's rampage on the movie industry with this year originally set to be one of the best years in entertainment of which that slate included the …
Continue reading Wonder Woman ’84—A Fun Addition to the DCEU That Builds on the First
Merry belated Christmas to all who celebrate and happy holidays to those who do not. When I think of the holiday season, I always think of laying on my parents' couch, with a hot drink in hand, watching Christmas movies that range from classics like Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), modern classics such as Elf …
In 2006, America was hit over the head with our own stupidity with Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentary, Borat, and it was outrageously hilarious. For years, Cohen has said that he was not going to film a sequel mainly due to people too easily recognize him and the Borat character now. However, under the veil of …
Continue reading Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm—The Shtick Hasn’t Gotten Old
Whenever I see "From the Producers of Get Out", I immediately get excited. Jordan Peele's team behind Get Out and Us did a phenomenal job with both of those films with their intersection of horror and race issues in America. So when those words came across my computer screen when I originally watched the trailer …
Continue reading Antebellum—There’s a Reason This Scrapped Its Theatrical Run
One of Disney's greatest decades in animation was the 1990's with classics like The Lion King (1994), Aladdin (1992), and Beauty and the Beast (1991). For me, one of my favorite films during this time was 1998's Mulan, and now, Mulan has taken its place as the most recent of the 90's Disney lineup to …
Continue reading Mulan (2020)—A Fantastic Remake Of Disney’s Animated Classic
Arguably, one of the best directors in the business right now is Christopher Nolan. Every film he has directed has been unbelievably great (subjectively of course), and each carry his very distinct style of filmmaking. So, with his amazing track record of projects, Tenet had become one of the most anticipated films of the year …
The movie that started off the the surge of comic book films was Fox's X-Men back in 2000, for it showed studios that they could make profitable, well-received, and mature films out of the properties. From there, Fox spawned two direct sequels, a three-film Wolverine series (Logan (2017) being the best live-action comic book film), …
Continue reading The New Mutants—Fox’s Era of X-Men Doesn’t Stick the Landing In Its Final Hours
The popular YA book series from Eoin Colfer was one of my favorites growing up as it was a very different take on the fantasy genre than what the Harry Potter , The Lord of the Rings, and Inheritance Cycle series gave us. Artemis Fowl was inventive, funny, and an overall enjoyable book series that …
Continue reading Artemis Fowl—A Foul Disgrace to Moviemaking and the Fantasy Genre
