Posts Tagged ‘Natalie Portman’
Episode 111 – Thor: Love and Thunder
For this week’s podcast, we review the latest saga starring Chris Hemsworth as Marvel‘s nordic hero in Thor: Love and Thunder. We also suggest our fan casting for a hypothetical live-action Jetsons movie. Lastly, we discuss the 1984 Red Riding Hood-themed horror fairytale, The Company…
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Episode 101 – Turning Red
On this week’s podcast, we review Disney and Pixar‘s latest animated feature, Turning Red. We also cover the winners of last week’s Academy Awards broadcast, and of course, we talk about the media frenzy surrounding #TheSlappening. At the end of the program, we review our streaming homework, the 2018 Natalie Portman drama, Vox Lux. Download…
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Film Review – Annihilation
The craziest and weirdest film so far of 2018 is Annihilation. The trailer gave off major Arrival vibes, but as the end credits roll, it is a film that will have the audience in major debates about what it is they just saw.
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Film Review – Thor: Ragnarok
Hey, look! A good Thor movie! Out of all the central characters featured so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor has remained a blank slate. Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013) are two of the more forgettable entries into the MCU, mostly…
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Film Review – Jackie
Jackie tells the story of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie) following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The film begins in 1963, one week after Jackie (Natalie Portman) and her children move out of the White House. A journalist (Billy Crudup) shows up…
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Film Review – Knight of Cups
I dread the day Terrence Malick stops making films. He is one of a kind, an original voice. No one makes movies the same way he does, and when he decides to call it quits he will take away a view of the world entirely…
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Film Review – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I love Jane Austen. I will see every single television and film adaptation of her books the rest of my life, without question. Emma Thompson’s Sense & Sensibility and Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice are the current favorites. When you hear someone has a taken…
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An Appreciation – Heat
Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) is the culmination of a career long obsession for its creator. For as long as Mann has been a filmmaker, he’s constantly returned to the same subject: the intricacies and nuances of characters operating on both sides of the law. Cops…
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