Category: Movie Review
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The Courage to Follow
Why that one line always gets me There are spoilers for a nearly 50 year old movie in this. I first saw the movie Watership Down (1978) as an early teen, and even then, it felt old. Even compared to other animated films from that period–Disney’s Robinhood (1973) or The Rescuers (1977) —Watership was noticeably…
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Why Is Furiosa Bombing at the Box Office?
The latest addition to the Mad Max cinematic universe, Furiosa is currently dying on the rocks of audience indifference and struggling to beat out a cat who hasn’t been relevant for more than twenty years. At the time of this writing, it looks like it is well on its way to failing to even come…
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Encanto: The Anti Lion King
May you live in interesting times. ~Ironic Chinese blessing (apocryphal) The hardest thing to realize is that there is a conflict in the first place. You watch a movie and this movie divides the world into nice, tidy groups: right, wrong, good guys, and bad guys. By and large, the distinctions between these groups are not…
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The Horror of Infinity Pool: Absolute Nihilism
“The line between good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart.”~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This movie is going to get completely spoiled. Infinity Pool tells the story of James and Em Foster, a couple of young socialites, who are thrust into a nightmare…
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The Menu: “Content,” Consumerism, and Disposable Art
The Menu has generated a lot of discussion with its themes of privilege and class, but I think that it also has some very interesting points to make about consumerism and the way that we interact with art.
The Barking Years 