Pete’s Dragon (2016)
The simplicity of Pete’s Dragon’s story and themes alike leaves it desperately reliant on fostering a sense of childlike wonder that it can’t hold onto.
Don’t Breathe Surveys the Wreckage of Modern America
Fede Alvarez and Jane Levy’s follow-up to Evil Dead offers scares, nasty twists and insight into the twisted underbelly of American in decline.
Tokyo Ghoul: Visceral Queerness and Radical Vampirism
On anime, vampires, and the physicality of transgressive queerness (except, maybe, not).
One Girl. One Night. One Take. One Waste of Time: Victoria’s Failed Experiment
There’s no particular reason why this generic German crime/romance-thriller needs to be executed in a single take, aside from it making good marketing copy. It sure doesn’t make for a good movie.
The Shallows: You Can Be a Hot Surfer Chick and a Hero Doctor. Just Watch Out for Sharks
The Shallows has a simple task: make sharks scary again. And it succeeds admirably, while offering (perhaps unintentionally) interesting commentary on sexualised heroines in horror movies.
Sausage Party (2016)
If you can stomach Sausage Party’s dire string of lazy racial caricatures and innuendo for an hour, the final sausage in the chain is pretty tasty.
Tony Soprano Meets The Bluths: How ‘BoJack Horseman’ Is Playing With The Golden Age Of TV
If Netflix is the future of television, then TV’s future might look a lot like its past.
Suicide Squad is a Sugar Rush and Sugar Crash All at Once
Suicide Squad is a feature length trailer. It’s structured like a videogame and plotted like a D&D campaign where everyone’s roleplaying chaotic evil. Anyway, I kinda liked it.
Star Trek Beyond Boldly Goes Where Sci-Fi Films Have Gone Before
The third instalment in the Trek reboot embraces its inherent whimsicality. However, the narrative is all too familiar, borrowing numerous tropes from similar films in the sci-fi genre.
Love & Friendship is a Delightfully Droll Austen Adaptation
Love & Friendship – Whit Stillman’s spin on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan – is a deftly-executed delight, a lilting melody of acerbic one liners and charming repartee.
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