Of Nerds, Women, Prizes And Lazy Storytelling Tropes (Or: The Unexpected Vices Of Ignorant Screenwriting)
Towards the end of the motion picture Goosebumps, my least favorite character in the entire…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 5: HEART OF GLASS
Picking up from where I left off last year, during the Halloween season, I write…
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl Defied All Odds To Create A Free-Spirited Classic
They said it couldn’t be done. A live-action pirate movie in this day and age,…
THE MARTIAN – Solving the Problem
Survival, Matt Damon’s character will tell the audience in a scene from the new Ridley…
Film On The Television (9/24/2015): You’re Next on Epix Hits
The history of cinema is littered with box office flops that didn’t deserve such a…
(UPDATED) Dissolve On: TIFF Edition (09/10/2015 – 09/21/2015)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, it’s commenting community had The Solute…
The Solute Record Club: Tom Waits – RAIN DOGS
There’s an odd contradiction when it comes to the avant-garde – a word that I’m…
War Room Loses The Battle Of Trying To Make A Good Motion Picture
Let’s start off this review with something legitimately positive; Alex Kendrick and his production company…
Dissolve On (08/23/2015 – 08/29/2015)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, it’s commenting community had The Solute…
Taco Break: Michael Shannon Got Stuck in a Bathroom on the Set of BATMAN v. SUPERMAN
Look, here at the Solutburo, we try and talk about movies seriously and originally. We…