An Alliance Divided: Rogue One’s “Star Wars Story”
Rogue One resists the mythic fairytale storytelling of its forebears while needing that same myth to justify its existence.
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Stephen Hawking is the perfect movie subject. He’s a world-famous physicist. He’s charming and funny. And he defied the odds to turn his motor neurone disease diagnosis – and the accompanying average life expectancy of two years – into fifty years of success. That probably explains why The Theory of Everything is, by my count,…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 seems like it could be the first feature film to take inspiration from AAA videogame development. That isn’t a good thing. You see, many weaker big-budget videogames suffer from creative inconsistency born of farming out their writing to dozens of writers; this guy wrote the lore, that guy writes the journal…
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