Category: Movies
Harambe of Darkness
Kong: Skull Island is a focus-grouped action movie franchise launch, but it’s clever and artistic enough to avoid being disposable and forgettable.
City of Infuriatingly Charismatic Stars
Reporting back from a movie-filled weekend. Some spoilers for the relentlessly charming La La Land, and a review of Rogue One inspired by Thumper the rabbit
No Insight To Be Had Out There
Shallow takes on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” are a perfect example of faux-progressive pop cultural simplification for the Twitter generation
Now They Set Their Clocks By Mine
Moana is a by-the-numbers Disney princess movie that keeps going off-script to transform into something inspired.
One of the Good Ones
Zootopia is surprisingly great, and a reminder of the value of family movies as parable
Would That It Were So Simple
A cursory and non-reductive look at Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen
It’s a Shame About Rey
Another note about The Force Awakens, merchandising, and spoiler culture. Contains huge spoilers, obviously.
It’s True. All of It.
Why I unabashedly love Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how much I’ve missed being able to unabashedly love a movie
Lowest Common Denormative
What terrible reviews of Trainwreck tell us about the sorry state of pop-progressivism on the Internet
Inside Out
Inside Out reminds us that we can’t be happy all of the time, an idea that angered, disgusted and frightened me.
