I will admit, I initially thought that it would be hard to talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi without spoiling, as just talking about the broad strokes like I normally do feels like a massive injustice, but thinking about it now, the broad strokes are actually the movie's greatest strength. So we're three movies…
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Wonder Woman could easily have been a run-of-the-mill superhero movie that would fly under the radar in five years. Her story is not wholly unique, and it’s easy to pick out tropes that have been used and overused in other origin movies. However, Geoff Johns and Allan Heinberg’s screenplay plus an excellent cast under Patty Jenkins’…
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Pan is director Joe Wright and writer Jason Fuchs' attempt at an origin story for J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan story, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. We're introduced to Peter being abandoned in front of an orphanage run by cranky nuns; so far so good. Suddenly orphans being sold to pirates? The…
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The film jumps right into the fray, with expectations to draw the viewer in with the familiarity of Kougami Shinya – a character from the first Psycho-Pass series who had gone into hiding. He’s on a battlefield, holding military arms and firing at his enemies. But this isn’t the first thing you process. Instead what you hear…
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