With Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg Turns a Bad Book into a Decent Movie
With Ready Player One, Spielberg has made a good movie out of a bad book. Shame he couldn’t have made a great one.
The Quiet Horror Of ‘Dunkirk’: Christopher Nolan’s War Epic Will Wreck You
Dunkirk is the final act of a horror film… but as a full-length movie.
The BFG (2016)
A perfectly serviceable film with excellent farting, but held back by nauseating 3D, a changed ending, and as scary as a cupcake.
The Best Films of 2015
As befitting the blood pact all movie bloggers must sign upon founding their website, what follows is a list of my favourite films of 2015. It’s been a strong year at the cinema, even if I felt it was a slight step down from last year (specifically, I didn’t see a single new film I…
Spielberg and Hanks Bridge the Incompatible Tensions of Nationalism
In 1962, Bronx lawyer and ex-Navy officer James B. Donovan negotiated a tense prisoner transfer between the United States of America, the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic. The negotiation required Donovan to enter East Germany at the behest of his country, but without any official recognition from America. Rather, Donovan was operating on…
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