An Inability To Be More Introspective Hinders Darkest Hour Greatly
Winston Churchill certainly has been a popular figure in pop culture lately, hasn’t he? The…
Good Ideas For Character Backstories Get Lost In The Vacuum of Bad Writing That Is The Cloverfield Paradox
For the longest time, third movies were considered to be the place where movie franchises…
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties: Get Grooving To Those Thoughtful And Transfixing Boogie Nights
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties is a recurring series wherein Douglas Laman (A.K.A. NerdInTheBasement) will review a…
The Spiral, Interlude: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (1984)
In which Avathoir and wallflower take a break from discussing Thomas Pynchon’s writing to talk…
The Year in Review: Imagining the Political
Last year, I focused on films that were the coming attractions of the Trump regime.…
Hostiles Tries To Be A Woke Western But It Can’t Quite Get It’s Eyes Open
I’ve been beating the drum on director Scott Cooper for some time now, mainly thanks…
Prepare For Oodles of Laughs And Kindness, Paddington 2 Is Here!
This perception (which is, as so many pieces of entertainment from decades past can attest,…
Hot Off The Presses Is Steven Spielberg’s Entertaining New Drama The Post
Steven Spielberg’s been directing movies since the early 1970’s and Meryl Streep got put on…
It’s Thematically Messy But The Greatest Showman Does Come Through On Providing Fun Musical Numbers
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to…
Water You Waiting For? Go See The Thoughtful And Engrossing Romantic Monster Movie Drama The Shape of Water
Fairy tales have always been used to impart larger ideas regarding the societies they originated…