Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is as close as live-action movies can possibly go to being zany animated cartoons. As obnoxious and irritating as this concept may sound, it was actually a great opportunity for comic mastermind Edgar Wright to stretch out the absurdity of his top-notch humor, experiment with a much larger budget than […]

Her is undoubtedly one of the best films I’ve seen this year. That’s an extraordinarily bold claim to make, I know, but I stand by every single word of it. How Spike Jonze, talented as he may be, was able to use such well-worn subject matter to write something of this caliber is beyond me, […]

The first film in the Star Trek reboot series (simply titled—what else?—Star Trek) was one I unexpectedly found myself struggling with. On one hand, the beginning of that film were surprisingly great, and I loved the tense dynamic between Kirk and Spock (the leaders of the USS Enterprise, in case you don’t know), but on […]

Robots have been a topic long explored in science fiction, but there are only two films I’ve seen so far that look upon it in a deep, compassionate way, one that has stayed with me long after the credits rolled. The first of them is, of course, 1982’s Blade Runner, which, despite being a lot […]

He may have come close with Ghostbusters and What About Bob?, but no other Bill Murray film is quite as deservedly beloved as the excellent Groundhog Day. Even if you’ve never seen it, you’ve definitely heard of it, and you know that that phrase doesn’t just refer to the holiday anymore, but also a day […]

In the Alien and Predator-dominated sci-fi horror genre, Event Horizon is a real oddity. Critics dismissed it as a loud, grisly waste of time upon its original release, but it has gained such a massive cult following over time (even being featured in the “Ahead of Their Time” section of Rotten Tomatoes’ “Rotten Movies We […]

It is literally impossible to talk about the Steven Soderbergh thriller Contagion without mentioning how culturally relevant it has now become. Immediately after news of an actual pandemic (COVID-19) spreading around the world hit the public, the film soared from #270 on Warner Bros’ “Most Popular” list to #2 (bested only by the Harry Potter […]

Waves is a pretty great film, but it’s probably not the one you may have been expecting from the marketing for it. The first trailer (not the second one, which, if you ask me, is more accurate) basically presented it as a standard “emotional” drama, which steered me away from catching it in theaters. Now […]

The Village may not be as terrible as some have made it out to be, but it’s definitely not the masterpiece others, who blamed the film’s negative reviews on its slightly inaccurate marketing, have retrospectively claimed it is. [NOTE: REVIEW CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS, WHICH ARE CLEARLY MARKED] I have this to say to them: if […]

As news of COVID-19, a deadly strain of the otherwise fairly harmless coronavirus, sweeping across the world seems to get more and more bleak every single day, I figured that now would be as good of a time as any to finally watch Outbreak. Or rather, my mom, who loved that film when she first […]