Tag: film reviews
Film as Lit Crit: The Problem With Beowulf
With a $150 million budget, that’s an expensive piece of criticism! I bet it all went into copyediting…
Too Many Villains: The Third Man (1949)
In Carol Reed’s 1949 classic The Third Man, no one is innocent…
Film Review: Out of the Past (1947)
The characters in Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 noir classic Out of the Past may not be good, but the movie is great.
Onward: A Film Review
Have you ever wondered if magic and mythical creatures existed what would the world look like? Would it be a place of wonder and adventure? If humans did not exist, […]
A Vignette of a Life Amongst a Thousand: A Review of 1917
The last film to bring tears to my eyes was 2017’s Dunkirk, mostly because I am of a generation of Christopher Nolan fan boys who cannot see him doing any wrong. […]
A Review on Avengers Endgame
Avengers: Endgame shows Earth’s mightiest heroes trying to overturn the evil Thanos. As the movie opens, the heroes have suffered many losses, but their hope is rekindled by the brains […]
The Power of Friendship: A Bad Boys For Life Film Review
There are certain film franchises that are iconic: Star Wars, Back to the Future, James Bond, etc. We can think of many fantastic series such as these and the impact […]
Symbols and Allegory in Blade Runner 2049
Seth Williams Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner 2049 features quite a bit of symbolic and allegoric imagery. In this examination of a single, isolated scene, one can grasp the despair and desolation […]
Justice League for Earth
Shawndre’ Young When a world-ending threat arrives on Earth’s doorstep, only a group of superheroes stand a chance of saving the planet. Can the combined powers of Batman, Wonder Woman, […]
Impact of Fear and Loss in IT
Dallas Collins What impact does fear and loss have on a child? Stephen King’s It, in both its film adaptations, seeks to answer this kind of question. With the nefarious Pennywise the […]
“Who Are You?”—Black Panther and Identity
Jahanna Bolding Marvel Studios owns the world. I know, I know; this sounds like an exaggeration, but Marvel dominates the film industry right now, producing multiple blockbusters a year to […]
The Dark Mirror of Reality
Cheyenne Davis Black Mirror is a Netflix series that focuses on the paranoia associated with technology as well as its capabilities. Each episode is like a short film in themselves […]