Jacob Knight

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Co-Founder / Co-Host / Editor: Secret Handshake

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

★★½ Watched by Jacob Knight 17 Dec, 2019 20

So, this is a "good news/bad news" scenario of the highest order (or Final Order, if we're speaking in the parlance of this picture). The good news is really only for folks who strongly disliked THE LAST JEDI. J.J. Abrams' return to the STAR WARS universe practically reduces that rather superlative instance of an auteur navigating the studio factory system and somehow still managing to make the movie he wanted to make nothing more than narrative sinew between two "traditional"…
Captain Marvel 2019

★½ Watched by Jacob Knight 04 Mar, 2019 75

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

While Marvel is no doubt viewing CAPTAIN MARVEL as a stride forward in the representation department - this movie is scientifically designed to appeal to those particular values - it's a massive step backward in terms of formal technique and fooling folks that these MCU pictures are anything more than feature length installments in a television series that will only end once humans have scorched the earth and there is no signal on which to transmit these products of the…