Tenet (2020): Time Colliding into Itself
Somehow, Tenet comes out unscathed though not because of anything of its own doing. Continue reading Tenet (2020): Time Colliding into Itself
Category: Movies
Dark – Season 1 – Episode 1
The structure of a separate era per season was already spoiled for me. Continue reading Dark – Season 1 – Episode 1
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
For a film franchise owing its existence to a video game series, to only capture a momentary glimpse of the ambience that made the source medium famous—and little else—was not just underwhelming, but downright criminal. Continue reading “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”
Goodfellas (1990): Portrait of a Marriage
One of the greater cruelties of Hollywood is how, after a star-making turn in Goodfellas, Ray Liotta never fashioned another career-defining opportunity since. Continue reading “Goodfellas (1990): Portrait of a Marriage”
Lone Survivor (2013) Pashtunwali in Action
If there was one critique I’m guilty of leveling against Peter Berg, it shall not be complacency nor comfort. Continue reading “Lone Survivor (2013) Pashtunwali in Action”
The Girl on the Train (2016)
There is something about the unreliable narrator that bonds it well with mystery films, that is, until it backfires in the unskilled hands of the handler. Continue reading “The Girl on the Train (2016)”
