Title: Dune Rating: 4/5 Runtime: 2h 35m One phenomenon that spread quickly through social media as Covid-19 first made headlines was the exponential rise in popularity of Timothée Chalamet. Just like many other people, the weirdness of the 2020 economic shutdown gave me the perfect opportunity to binge watch every movie that Chalamet appears in … Dune: A Movie Review
Title: Avengers Infinity War Director(s): Anthony & Joe Russo Release Date: April 27, 2018 Rating: 4/5 All photos courtesy of Marvel What do you do when there’s just too much? Well, according to Marvel, you put it all into one big pile and squish it together. What follows is largely up to the future to … Movie Review: Avengers Infinity War
Director: Rupert Sanders Studio: Paramount Pictures Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk Release Date: March 31st, 2017 Rating: N/A Ghost in the Shell is, by all accounts, a painfully mediocre movie. Mamoru Oshii’s classic anime version from 1995 is beloved for not only its cool action and graphic imagery, but also for its ethical … There’s No More Excuses for Whitewashing After Ghost in the Shell
Director: James Mangold Studio: Marvel Entertainment Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Dafne Keen Release Date: March 3, 2017 Rating: Logan is the best comic book movie Marvel has ever created. At times, I forgot that I was even watching a comic book movie, because it’s just so unlike anything we’ve ever seen before … Film Review: ‘Logan’
Image via Lionsgate Film: La La Land Director: Damien Chazelle Release Date: December 9, 2016 Studio: Summit Entertainment Rating: “Here’s to the fools who dream,” Emma Stone sings on “Audition,” one of the standout numbers from Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. It’s an endearingly doe-eyed, overly saccharine moment; one that captures the half-romantic-half-naive idealism … Movie Review: ‘La La Land’