Letterboxd — Your life in film

I often wonder why many filmmakers, when they make several changes to popular novels, don't just go the full hog and change it all. The name already brings them brand…

Another family movie experience, this time no trauma. The 11- and 8-year olds were both riveted; Sophie was so plugged in that when they were trying to find Truman in…

Recognizing it will likely come off as a poor, incredibly obvious attempt at a snarky dismissal... Genuinely, the single highest and lowest compliment I can pay Baz Luhrmann's effort here…

11-YEAR-OLD
Well, that was extremely terrifying.

DAD
Does "extremely terrifying" mean you didn't like it?

11-YEAR-OLD
...Not so much extremely terrifying as extremely traumatizing.

*And scene*

And that was after…

Driven by ideas and handsomely mounted by writer/director Joseph Kosinski, Oblivion tries extremely hard to be a thinking person's post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie. And it almost succeeds, scuppered only by confused…