The innocence of first love, young and naive, is it even love when your 14 and Elvis Presley is hitting on you? It's the freshman in High School who is dating the popular QB. It's getting picked up by the guy with the nice car when the other kids don't even have a license. It's the allure of dating an older man, with more money, more toys, more friends, and seemingly more life?
It’s only when you get to the…
America was built on blood, capitalism fostered an individualistic society that made it easy for people to tap into their worse impulses. It's the one thread in Scorsese's filmography: crime in America, across different eras, large and small, always driven by money and greed. Killers of the Flower Moon is a deep dive into the banality of evil, for Scorsese, it’s his darkest entry on America’s story.
The book is a page-turner, the film is devastating — it’s a lot to…
The Killer is a deconstruction of the assassin movie genre that Taken kicked off and John Wick popularized: perfect killing machines, seeking vengeance, taking down their enemies like a one-man army. I love John Wick but he might as well be a superhero at this point, so it's ironic that The Killer is based on a comicbook since it presents itself as the realistic antidote to a genre that's gotten more absurd in recent years.
The Killer start with our unnamed…
Ridley Scott has such a diverse filmography it can be difficult to nail down his visual style but Napoleon cements his status as one of our best directors when it comes to making films that are grand and epic.
The battle scenes alone make Napoleon worth watching in IMAX, you wanna go big and loud with this one. Scott’s camera shows off the scale and proportion of the battlefield in relation to the soldiers, their movement, and the world that surrounds…
I rarely talk during movies but we only 10 minutes in before I turn to Pann: “I think we are experiencing something real special.” Credits roll and I’m wiped out, I don’t even want to check my phone to see if there is an extra scene, let me catch my breath, I haven’t recovered from the rollercoaster yet. We walk out and my bro-in-law impulsively lets out a “ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!”, the usher nods in approval, game recognize game.
Not only…
I had a huge Ninja Turtles phase as a kid, we talking cartoon, movies, video games, action figures, t-shirts, bed spreads, I was crazy for them. Not only were they cool, but their name was cool.
Teenage: I’m already sold, I was only 5 years old and all I knew about teenagers is that they got to do all the fun stuff: eat pizza, skateboard and kick ass.
Mutant: Pretty sure TMNT was the first time I heard the word mutant, I…
