Posts Tagged ‘Universal Pictures’
Film Review – 1917
Long, unbroken camera takes – where the frame follows on screen action without any edits or cuts – can immerse us into a film when done properly. It allows us to experience events as they happen in real time, going through the physical and emotional…
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Tom Hooper’s Cats (2019) isn’t just one of the most bizarre musicals ever made, it’s one of the most bizarre films of recent memory, period. Everything about it is strange – from the story, to the characters, the music, the dancing, the special effects –…
READ MOREFilm Review – Queen & Slim
Racism, police violence, societal prejudices, the disaffection and pressure of constantly living under scrutiny based on appearance, the simple wish to just be; these are all issues that African Americans live with on a constant basis. How to eke out any sort of normalcy or…
READ MOREFilm Review – Abominable
One often used trope in family and animated films involves a protagonist befriending an outsider, usually of the fantastical variety. The earliest iteration of this I can remember was the friendship born between Elliott (Henry Thomas) and the alien in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). But…
READ MOREEpisode 17 – Hobbs & Shaw
On this episode of the podcast, we discuss which actor played the best Alfred Pennyworth, the cancellation of the Blumhouse thriller The Hunt, and we review the newest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, Hobbs & Shaw. We also try to decipher our latest…
READ MOREFilm Review – Good Boys
Max, Thor and Lucas are indeed good boys, albeit good boys with filthy mouths. Best friends by default (same school, parents are friends, live within a two block radius of one another), they’re each facing their own struggles while trying to survive the sixth grade.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Hobbs & Shaw
Of all the things the Fast and Furious franchise is concerned with, continuity falls way down at the bottom of the list. This series started out with a simple cops and robbers premise. It’s now changed to over the top action with spy agencies, counterespionage,…
READ MOREFilm Review – Yesterday
We all know Biff Tannen is a butthead, but can’t we at least admit his stealing of a sports almanac in the future to enhance his present is innately enticing? To be the only one on earth with information guaranteed to bring you fame and…
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